Results of a USA Today/Gallup poll released in newspapers on Tuesday showed that 65 percent of Americans questioned believed the notorious prison should not be closed and some of its detainees should not be transferred to the US prisons. Thirty-two percent of the respondent, on the other hand were supportive of the idea.

When it came to whether you want the detainees to put behind the bars in your home states, the ratio jumped to three to one, the poll revealed, according to AFP.

By 40 to 18 percent, the respondents maintained that Guantanamo has boosted the country's security, echoing the same claims made by Obama's predecessor George W. Bush and his vice president Dick Cheney.

The poll of 1,015 adults was conducted Friday through Sunday and has a margin of error of three percentage points.

President Barack Obama on his campaign trail had vowed to shutter the Guantanamo Prison when he would take office.

On the first day of his election, Obama ordered the closure of the detention facility within one year.

Now with the US lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, against the plan, Obama has a complicated challenge ahead to put an end to the US symbol of torture and human rights abuse.