A BURGEONING NIMBY CONSENSUS?.... This seems to be an increasingly common sentiment.

Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the assistant majority leader, said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he would accept Guantanamo detainees in his home state as long as they were held in super-maximum prisons, where inmates are held 23 hours a day in small cells with slits for windows.

Moderator David Gregory asked: "Would you be OK with al Qaeda prisoners -- those currently at Guantanamo Bay -- in a prison in Illinois?"

Durbin responded: "Well, I'd be OK with it in a supermax facility, because we've never had an escape from one."...

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