Trump says he will reopen the Alcatraz prison for “most ruthless criminals”

Donald Trump said that he dedicated his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on an island ahead of San Francisco, which has been closed for more than 60 years.

In a contribution on his social side of truth on Sunday evening, Trump wrote: “America was plagued by malignant, violent and repeated criminals for too long, the DEGS of Society, which will never contribute anything other than misery and suffering.

He added: “That is why today I head the office of prisons together with the Ministry of the Ministry of Justice, FBI and Homeland Security to reopen a significantly enlarged and recreated Alcatraz in order to accommodate America's most reckless and violent offenders.”

Trump's guideline for the reconstruction and reopening of the boring prison is the latest Salvo to revise how and where federal prisoners and immigration prisoners are locked up.

But such a step would probably be expensive and challenging. The prison was closed in 1963 due to the crumbling infrastructure and the high costs for the repair and delivery of the island system, since everything had to be brought by boat from fuel to food.

Bringing the facility to modern standards would require massive investments in a time when the Federal Bureau of Prison's prisons for similar infrastructure problems.

The island is now an important tourist place 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. “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.

The prison, which was considered inevitably due to the strong sea currents and the cold pacific water that was surrounded, was known as “The Rock” and housed some of the most notorious criminals in the country, including Al Capone and George “machine gun” Kelly.

In the 29 years in which it was open, 36 men tried 14 separate escape according to FBI. Almost all of them were caught or did not survive.

The fates of three inmates – the brothers John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris – are the subject of a debate, whereby their history was dramatized by Alcatraz with Clint Eastwood in 1979.

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

The command comes when Trump collected the courts when he tried to send accused gang members in El Salvador without proper procedure in a prison of maximum security. Trump also has the legally dubious idea of ​​sending some US prisoners to Terrorism boundary center, known as Cecot.

Trump also headed the opening of a prison in Guantánamo Bay in Cuba to keep up to 30,000 of what he described as the “worst criminal alien”.