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President Trump says he orders federal authorities to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz – the notorious maximum security prison that was closed more than 60 years ago.
“I run the prison office together with the Ministry of Justice, the FBI and the home protection to reopen a significant enlarged and rebuilt Alcatraz in order to accommodate America's ruthless and violent perpetrators,” said Trump in one post about the truth.

The historic former US prison Alcatraz prison opened in 1934 is generally known as The Rock. His buildings dominate the rugged landscape of Alcatraz Island, which is about 1.5 miles north of San Francisco's famous fisherman on Wharf.

Alcatraz once housed dangerous criminals such as the notorious Mobster Al Capone under a detention strategy that concentrated difficult prisoners in a facility and had separated them from less dangerous inmates in the prison system.

Trump's message indicates that he wants to restore Alcatraz for her original double purpose. The twin goals for the structure of the original prison were “with the most incorrigible inmates in federal prisons and the legal public, according to the German prison's office, that the Federal Government was serious” to stop the widespread crime in the 1920s and 1930s “.

“Restore Alcatraz again!” The president said about the social truth. He later added in his message: “The reopening of Alcatraz will serve as a symbol of law, order and justice.”

Trump gave no details about a schedule for the reopening of the prison. And the National Park Service did not respond to NPR's request for a comment on the new plan of the President for Alcatraz before this story was published.

Trump's proposal would be delivered on an island with a high price for the construction and operation of a new prison facility, the most plentiful natural resource of sandstone.

According to the Federal Bureau of Prison, Alcatraz was closed, “because the institution was too expensive to continue operating. The operation of the island prison was almost three times more expensive than any other federal prison at this time.

“This isolation meant that everything (food, supply, water, fuel …) had to be brought to Alcatraz by boat,” says the office. “For example, the island had no source of fresh water, so almost a million gallon water had to be moved to the island every week.”

The then American Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy closed the federal prison in 1963.

Alcatraz is currently a museum that has been managed since 1972 as part of the national recreation area of ​​the Golden Gate. The NPS puts the prison in historical context and says that it “represents the reaction of the federal government to the follow -up officers according to the proceedings, both according to the depression America. The institution and the men that are limited in their walls reflect our society in this era.” “

According to the Park Service, the original impetus for the creation of the Alcatraz prison was to create a “top-class prison in the request of the US government, which represents the response of the Ministry of Justice to fears in relation to public security and organized crimes”.

For federal prison officers, Alcatraz served “as an experiment” in the treatment of problematic occupants, according to the parking service. It adds: “The model you developed on Alcatraz would later serve as a blueprint for the high security prison in Marion, Illinois.”

Since his return in January in January, Trump has presented a number of top -class initiatives, which he says to protect public security and also act against illegal immigration. This includes the deportation of immigrants – and possibly US citizens – to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

Alcatraz was initially regarded as a defense outlook in San Francisco Bay when it was accommodated by President Millard Fillmore under federal control.

But the United States soon started using the island as a prison.

The groups accommodated there include: prisoners Confedered in the 1860s; Members of the Hopi tribe in the 1890s; And prisoners from the Spanish-American War of 1898.

In the early 1900s it became the location of the US disciplinary barracks for the US Army. In 1933 “the island was brought to the US Ministry of Justice by the US prison office to the Ministry of Justice,” said the prison office.

Alcatraz Island is now a popular National Park Service location that has been accessible to the public since 1973.