Plan To Close Guantanamo Costs Up To $475M

The Pentagon plan to close the U.S. prison in Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba , references 13 potential sites for detainees to be
transferred to U.S. soil but does not endorse a specific
facility, administration officials said on Tuesday
.
The cost of the transfer and closure would be $290 million
to $475 million, an official told reporters on a conference
call. Housing the remaining detainees in the United States
would be $65 million to $85 million cheaper than at the
Cuba facility, the official said, so costs would be offset
within three to five years.
Some 35 prisoners will be transferred from Guantanamo to
other countries this year, leaving the final number below 60,
officials said. President Barack Obama believes the United
States can safely house the rest at a domestic facility, they
added.