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Argument: US prisons are capable of handling Guantanamo detainees
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- Suzanne Nossel, Senior Fellow at the Security and Peace Institute. "10 Reasons to Close Guantanamo". Democracy Arsenal. June 12, 2005 - "Because military prisons elsewhere in the U.S. can handle those inmates that are not repatriated – One of the reasons originally given for housing the Afghan detainees at Guantanamo was that this was a particularly violent and rebellion-prone group , as evidenced by the ferociousness of the Taliban's fighting during the war. But there's little sign that as an inmate population, the Guantanamo detainees pose any particular challenge with which a mainline military prison could not cope. Other enemy combatants like Jose Padilla have been held on U.S. soil without incident."