Come to think of it, Dreyfus was held as an alleged enemy combatant too.

Hmmm. Seems to be working for Bush.

And what's new there?
Oh, I understand. It would mean to hand over Guantanamo to the Cubans. After all, Cuba also has a long tradition in prison-keeping. Put them under lock and key, making damn sure they are free.
So we can still learn from good ole communism, can't we?

We already have what you might call a policy of internal rendition in many states, whereby the prisoner's home state sends him to another state, say Texas or Virginia, where conditions are even more brutal and primitive than they are at home. Sometimes legislators or governors of the home state (it has happened in New York) are civlized enough to call of or curtail the practice. More often not. Nobody cares except the poor bastards, mostly black or Hispanic but practically always poor and politically powerless. Republicans and Democrats both, we have all stood by complicit as our politicians created a vast, pitiless gulag of so-called "criminals," although actual crime has been going down for decades.

And if prisoners are kept within the state, most often they're exiled to some remote rural spot "that needs the jobs" and is too far from home and public transportation for family and friends to visit.