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Trump says he will resume Alcatraz to accommodate “America's ruthless and violent criminals” in order to accommodate the American and most violent perpetrators.

President Trump said on Sunday that he was rejecting his government to open and expand again AlcatrazThe notorious former prison on an island near San Francisco, California.

In a contribution about his social side of his truth, Mr. Trump wrote: “For too long, America was given by malicious, violent and repeated criminal offenders, the Dregs of society, which will never contribute anything other than misery and suffering. If we have been a more serious nation, we have completed the most dangerous criminals in the past.

A general view of the island of Alcatraz on August 16, 2024 near San Francisco, California.

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Mr. Trump said he was rejecting the office for prisons, the Ministry of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security, “to open up a significantly enlarged and rebuilt Alcatraz in order to accommodate the most ruthless and violent perpetrators in America.”

“The reopening of Alcatraz is used as a symbol of law, order and justice,” he added.

A spokesman for the prison office informed the Associated Press in a statement that the agency “comply with all presidential orders”. The spokesman did not immediately answer the AP's questions about the practicality and feasibility of the reopening of Alcatraz or the role of the agency in the future of the former prison in view of the control of the island of the National Park Service.

Mr. Trump's social media post comes when he collapsed with the dishes proper procedure. Mr. Trump also spoke about wanting this Send American citizens there And to other foreign prisons.

Mr. Trump, who returned to the White House on Sunday evening, said reporters that he had developed the idea because “radicalized judges” who insisted that the deportation received a proper procedure.

What was Alcatraz prison?

The Alcatraz prison on the island of Alcatraz, a little more than a mile north of San Francisco, was maximum security. The minimal privilege prison was opened in 1934 to deal with the “most incorrigible inmates in federal prisons”, according to the prisons.

It should also “show the public that is serious about the law that the Federal Government was serious about stopping the rampant crime of the 1920s and 1930s,” said the office on its website.

Southwest view on the cellblock 'A' in Alcatraz.

Southwest View on Cell Block 'A' in the Alcatraz prison, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, USA.

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Well-known criminals such as Al Capone, George “Machine-Gun” Kelly, Alvin Karpis (the first “public enemy No. 1) and Arthur” Doc “Barker took time in Alcatraz.

Alcatraz had a capacity of 336 prisoners, although the average population was only around 260 to 275 at a certain point in time.

In the 29 years in which it was operated, 36 men were involved in 14 separate participants Attempts to escape. 23 of these were caught, six shot and two drowned.

It closed on March 21, 1963 because the prison was too expensive to continue operating, said the BOP.

After it was closed, it was basically abandoned. In 1969 a group of Indian Indians occupied Alcatraz for 18 months to claim it as an Indian country.

Can people visit Alcatraz?

After his closure, the prison in books and films was often portrayed as “America's Devil's Island”, including “The Rock” with Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage and the film “Escape from Alcatraz” with Clint Eastwood from 1979.

In 1972 the Congress founded the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the island on which Alcatraz was located, was recorded as part of a new National Park Service location. The island was opened to tourists in autumn 1973 and has become one of the most popular National Park Service sites.

Alcatraz Island still acts as a tourist location.

The former spokesman for the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, whose district comprises the island, questioned the feasibility of reopening the prison after so many years.

“It is now a very popular national park and a great tourist attraction. The president's proposal is not more serious,” she wrote about X.

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