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Trump orders the reconstruction and reopening of the notorious Alcatraz prison in the USA | Donald Trump News

The Californian Federal prison California federal subjects has been closed for more than six decades.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said that he had ordered the officials to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, a notorious federal prison based on a small island in the state of California, which has been closed for more than 60 years.

In a contribution about his social side of the truth on Sunday, Trump wrote that he heads the prisons' office together with the Ministry of Justice, the FBI, the FBI and home protection security in order to reopen a significantly enlarged and rebuilt Alcatraz in order to accommodate the “ruthless and most violent perpetrators” in the United States.

The directive was the latest step of the Republican to revise how and where federal prisoners and immigration prisoners are locked up.

It happens that his administration has come into conflict with the judiciary after calling a law from the 18th century – previously only used during the war – to deport those who claim to be criminal and gang members without proper procedure.

Trump has also repeatedly conducted the legally dubious idea of ​​sending us citizens who were sentenced to a prison for maximum security for violent crimes in El Salvador, known as Cecot.

When he returned to the White House after a weekend in Florida, Trump said with reporters and said that Alcatraz's reopening “only an idea that I had”, with frustrations with “radicalized judges”, which have insisted that the deported procedures received an proper procedure.

“It is a symbol of law and order,” he said.

The comments followed the broadcast of an interview in which the President said that he does not know whether the people in the United States are entitled to calculate the procedural rights guaranteed by the state's constitution.

The fifth change in the constitution offers “proper legal process”, which means that a person has certain rights when it comes to being pursued by crime. In addition, the 14th amendment claims that no state can “refuse to protect the laws of a person in their responsibility”.

“No serious” suggestion

In view of the island location, the cold water and strong currents, Alcatraz was invoiced as the safest prison in the USA.

In the 29 years in which it was open, no successful refugees from Alcatraz were officially recorded, although five prisoners are listed as “missing and suspected”. A total of 36 men tried 14 separate escape.

A visitor to Alcatraz Island's former federal prison is leaning against a B block cell [File: Noah Berger/Reuters]

The prison, which was the subject of several films, was closed in 1963 due to crumbling infrastructure and high repair and supply costs, since everything – from fuel to food – had to be brought by boat.

According to the website of the Federal Bureau of Prison (BOP), it was almost three times more expensive than any other federal prison.

Bringing the facility into today's standards would have to require massive investments at a time when BOP has closed prisons for similar infrastructure problems.

Alcatraz Island is now an important tourist location that is operated by the National Park Service and is a proven national historical landmark.

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 large tourist attraction. The president's proposal is not a serious one,” she wrote about X.

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