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(NewsNation) — President Trump connected Sunday directed national authorities to grow and reopen Alcatraz, the legendary and long-shuttered U.S. situation successful San Francisco Bay, to location today’s “most ruthless and violent” criminals.
In a post connected Truth Social, the president said helium is tapping the Bureau of Prisons and different national instrumentality enforcement agencies to “reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt” mentation of Alcatraz.
Trump couched his program — it wasn’t instantly known however viable it would beryllium — arsenic a mode to get pugnacious connected crime. He targeted what helium called repetition offenders and the “dregs of society.”
“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. That’s the mode it’s expected to be,” Trump wrote.
Alcatraz, besides known arsenic “The Rock,” was a national situation that operated betwixt 1934 and 1963, erstwhile it was closed due to the fact that of precocious operating costs. The penitentiary was considered particularly strict and virtually escape-proof due to the fact that of the treacherous waters surrounding the land upon which it sits.
Three inmates managed to flight successful 1962, but it’s not known if they survived; it became the ground for the 1979 Clint Eastwood movie “Escape from Alcatraz.” Another fashionable diagnostic acceptable astatine the tract was "The Rock," an escapade starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, from 1996.
Some of Alcatraz’s astir notorious inmates included Chicago mobster Al Capone, who served clip for taxation evasion, and George “Machine Gun” Kelly.
Today, the erstwhile situation is simply a fashionable tourer and depository destination tally by the National Park Service.
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons said successful a connection that the bureau “will comply with each Presidential Orders.” The spokesperson did not instantly reply questions from The Associated Press regarding the practicality and feasibility of reopening Alcatraz oregon the agency’s relation successful the aboriginal of the erstwhile situation fixed the National Park Service’s power of the island.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
