"Where demanded by justice and national security, we will seek to transfer some detainees to the same type of facilities in which we hold all manner of dangerous and violent criminals within our borders — highly secure prisons that ensure the public safety," Obama said. "Bear in mind the following fact: Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax ' prisons."We only have one federal supermax prison.
Will the Illinois prison be converted to a supermax prison?
Obama is an idiot. The risk isn't that an inmate will escape.
The risk is that someone else will target the prison, or the community around it, to protest the detention of his compatriots.
Guantanamo is isolated from the rest of the world. Cuba's police state takes care of security on the rest of the island. It's the ideal place to keep high-risk prisoners that would attract attention from their buddies that would be happy to blow themselves up nearby, just to make a statement.