‘Gitmo On The Platte’

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By Rick Sallinger

CBS4 News has learned if http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4291, those taken into custody will be jailed in a warehouse owned by the City of Denver.

Investigator Rick Sallinger discovered the location and managed to get inside for a look.

The newly created lockup is on the northeast side of Denver. Protesters have already given this place a name: “http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4998 on the Platte.”

Inside are dozens are metal cages. They are made out of chain link fence material and topped by rolls of barbed wire.

“This is a secured environment,” Capt. Frank Gale of the Denver Sheriff’s Department told CBS4. “We’re concerned about how that’s going to be utilized by people who will be potentially http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4945.”In past conventions, mass arrests have taken place.

With Denver’s jails already overflowing, new space had to be created and officers trained.

Each of the fenced areas is about 5 yards by 5 yards and there is a lock on the door. A sign on the wall reads “Warning! Electric stun devices used in this facility.”

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2008-08-13