...is not prison

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/weekinreview/18shane.html

It's obvious what to do with the illegal incarcerants in gitmo: send them to Riker's. Then they can see first-hand what a real American prison looks like, and how the real criminal justice system of the world's leading democracy really works. Oh, but wait, that would ruin Bush's plan to distract us from the disgusting state of bigotry, rape, violence, drugs, gangs, and overall depravity that exists in our nation's prisons. In fact, all the state-sanctioned torture and abuse at Gitmo and Abu Gharib is a wonderful smoke screen: those "prisons" represent the true state of depravity, as compared to the allegedly supreme and just penal system we have in our civil courts. What a farce, what a sham. If we didn't need to buy oil from the leading funding source of terrorists, Saudi Arabia and its citizens, then we could release them all and let Allah sort it out.