Suffolk County Council said it planned to use the land for a waste transfer facility.

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If the Mineral Wells Pre-Parole Transfer Facility in Mineral Wells, Tex. is any indication, the answer is: nothing good.

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Once residents are ready to go back home or transfer to another facility, federal law also requires that the homes write special plans to make sure patients are safely discharged.

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The court has also heard claims that former Prime Minister Tony Blair's office frustrated attempts by consular officials to help a detainee who was facing transfer to Guantanamo, the US detention facility in Cuba.

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Dunford met Mr. Karzai on Thursday, for the second day in a row, trying to find an agreement on how to transfer the main U.S. detention facility at Bagram Air Field to Afghan control while ensuring that dangerous Taliban detainees remain behind bars, officials from both countries said.

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Under an agreement signed last March, the two countries agreed to transfer control of the jail, known formally as the Detention Facility in Parwan, by a September 2012 deadline.

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