Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison

Donald Trump says helium is directing his authorities to reopen and grow Alcatraz, the erstwhile situation connected an land disconnected the seashore of California.

In a connection connected his Truth Social tract connected Sunday, President Trump said that "for excessively agelong America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repetition transgression offenders".

The reopening of Alcatraz would service arsenic a "symbol of law, order, and justice," helium said.

The situation was closed successful 1963, and Alcatraz Island is presently operating arsenic a tourer site. It lies adjacent San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

"Today, I americium directing the Bureau of Prisons, unneurotic with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ," Trump wrote.

The situation would "house America's astir ruthless and convulsive Offenders".

President Trump has been clashing with the courts implicit his argumentation of sending alleged pack members to a situation successful El Salvador. In March, helium sent a radical of much than 200 alleged Venezuelan pack members there. He has besides talked astir sending "homegrown criminals" to overseas prisons.

Alcatraz was primitively a naval defence fort, and it was rebuilt successful the aboriginal 20th Century arsenic a subject prison. The Department of Justice took it implicit successful the 1930s and it began taking successful convicts from the national situation system. Among its much celebrated inmates were the notorious gangsters Al Capone, Mickey Cohen and George "Machine Gun" Kelly.

The situation was besides made celebrated by the 1962 film, Birdman of Alcatraz, starring Burt Lancaster, astir the convicted murderer Robert Stroud, who portion serving a beingness condemnation connected the situation land developed an involvement successful birds and went connected to go an adept ornithologist.

It was besides the tract of the 1996 movie The Rock, starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, astir a erstwhile SAS skipper and FBI chemist who rescue hostages from Alcatraz island.

The situation closed due to the fact that it was excessively costly to proceed operating, according to the Federal Bureau of Prison website. It was astir 3 times much costly to run than immoderate different national prison, mostly owed to its land location.