Report: No easy options if Gitmo closed

CHICAGO, July 16 (UPI) -- There are no easy solutions for dealing with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp should it should be closed, officials told the Chicago Tribune.

The newspaper reviewed options that may be available should U.S. officials decide they want to close the military-run prison camp in Cuba, a move that has long been called for by human rights campaigners and has been endorsed by both likely major party U.S. presidential nominees. None of the options were uncomplicated, the newspaper said.

One solution may be to move as many of the 265 remaining prisoners as possible to friendly nations that would detain them on the United States' behalf. But that could be seen as a way to circumvent a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month that gave the detainees the chance to have their detentions reviewed by a federal court.

Another option, the Tribune said, would include transporting them to a military prison in the United States or the "Supermax" civilian prison in Colorado, the newspaper said.

But there would also be legal hurdles involved in keeping military prisoners in civilian jails or transferring some of them to the federal justice system for trial, it said.