Trump orders feds to reopen Alcatraz to house 'America’s most ruthless and violent' criminals

President Donald Trump is calling for the notorious situation and present humanities landmark, Alcatraz, successful San Francisco, California, to beryllium rebuilt larger and reopened to location the country’s astir ruthless and convulsive criminals.

Trump made the announcement successful a Truth Social station connected Sunday evening.

"REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!" the president said. "For excessively long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repetition Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who volition ne'er lend thing different than Misery and Suffering.

"When we were a much superior Nation, successful times past, we did not hesitate to fastener up the astir unsafe criminals, and support them acold distant from anyone they could harm," Trump continued, adding that it's expected to beryllium this way. "No longer volition we tolerate these Serial Offenders who dispersed filth, bloodshed, and mayhem connected our streets."

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, AUGUST 11, 1934, AMERICA'S MOST NOTORIOUS PRISONERS ARRIVE AT ALCATRAZ

President Donald Trump is ordering the reopening of a "substantially enlarged and rebuilt" Alcatraz Island to location "America’s astir ruthless and convulsive Offenders." (Credit: iStock | Getty Images)

Trump said helium is directing the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Homeland Security to reopen a "substantially enlarged and rebuilt" Alcatraz, "to location America’s astir ruthless and convulsive offenders."

"We volition nary longer beryllium held hostage to criminals, thugs, and Judges that are acrophobic to bash their occupation and let america to region criminals, who came into our Country illegally," helium said successful the post. "The reopening of ALCATRAZ volition service arsenic a awesome of Law, Order, and JUSTICE. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

Alcatraz opened successful 1934, but the prison, located connected a 22-acre spit of rock, was shuttered aft 29 years.

THE ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ: WHAT HAPPENED, BIGGEST CONSPIRACY THEORIES SURROUNDING THE INFAMOUS PRISON BREAK

Alcatraz Island opened arsenic a situation successful 1934. (Brandon Sloter/Getty Images)

Considering its 1.25-mile region to shore, the Bay Area land was considered practically escape-proof, though determination were 14 documented attempted escapes.

The astir notorious 1 was the June 11, 1962, flight by John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris, which inspired "Escape from Alcatraz."

It remains a enigma whether the 3 reached the enactment and survived. The FBI concluded the escapees drowned owed to harsh conditions.

BUILDING ALCATRAZ: AMERICA'S INESCAPABLE, ISLAND-RIDDEN PRISON

The flight of 3 convicts - John Anglin, Clarence Anglin, and Frank Morris - from Alcatraz, including a suspected enigma vessel seen connected the San Francisco Bay the nighttime of their disappearance, is elaborate successful the June 17, 1962, variation of the Oakland Tribune newspaper. (Photo by MediaNews Group/Oakland Tribune via Getty Images)

The 3 prisoners chiseled an flight way from their ain jailhouse cells and built makeshift, papier-mâché heads.

The last attempted flight from the prison, astir six months later, inspired what has go the swimming way of the "Escape from Alcatraz" triathlon.

Its astir notorious inmates included gangsters James "Whitey" Bulger, Al Capone and George "Machine Gun" Kelly, positive infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz" Robert Stroud and "Public Enemy No. 1" Alvin Karpis. 

Alcatraz yet closed successful 1963 aft its land operations proved acold much costly than mainland-based prisons.

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Alcatraz Island contiguous is a fashionable San Francisco tourer attraction operated by the National Park Service. 

Fox News Digital’s Kerry J. Byrne and Ryan Morik contributed to this report.