SIn 1963, Alcatraz's prison has become a legend. The seemingly inevitable federal penalty livestock on the island of California, surrounded by cold and powerful currents, gained recognition for accommodating the most famous prisoners in history, from AL “Scarface” to Capone to George's “bullet gun”.
But now, decades after the Saar bought the Service of the National Park and became a popular tourist destination, Donald Trump wants to convert it into prison.
What did Trump say about Alcatraz
“Refrecuring and open Alcatraz!” president posted On Sunday evening, on Sunday evening, announcing that he has directed the Prison Bureau, the Ministry of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Security to “reopen and rebuilt on the island of Alcatraz to accommodate the most insane and violent criminals in America.
Step arrives when Trump has been more aggressive punitive policy During another term, including signing of orders encourage use of extreme sentences and the death penalty target imprisoned trans by women and this expand Police authority. Trump has also been criticized for the prevention of the rule of law in conducting a mass deportation campaign, both without documentary immigrants and legally in the United States without proper procedure. At a meeting in April, Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Buke, Trump said he would be the next to deport the Americans to deport El Salvador. In January Trump ordered The opening of the detention center in the Guantanamo Bay, where the US has long been renting from Cuba, where its administration would send “the worst criminal foreigners”.
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“When we were a more serious nation, we did not hesitate to lock the most dangerous criminals in the past and keep them far from everyone they could damage. So it should be,” Trump added in his social post. “We are no longer considered criminals, thugs and judges who are afraid to do their job and allow us to remove criminals who came illegally in our country.”
Trump notice Journalists on Sunday evening, returning from Florida to the White House that his Alcatraz plan was just an idea I had had “against radicalized judges [that] You want trials for everyone – for every single person who is illegally in our country. “Alcatraz is a” symbol of law and order “, he said.”
History of Alcatraz
Long before Alcatraz got a prison place, it was a military fortress. Originally San Francisco Bay Region of the Indigenous Ohlone People's Land, Saar was named La Isla de las alcatraces After his large pelikans that the Spanish Navy officer, which arrived in 1775, thought as gannets, was called sub -degrees in Spanish. Later, after the year of 1848, the island became the US Navy Defense Castle. The US army also used the island to keep prisoners, including the Civil War Confederation sympatheticists and Hop's indigenous people who opposed the government's decisions and compulsory educational programs in 1895. By 1912 it was a prison of the official military.
In 1933, the Ministry of Justice took over the island and made it a maximum security federal punishment, partly in response to an increase in organized crime during the ban. If the surrounding conditions did not make a heavy enough prospect, the prison was modernized so that each prisoner was held in one cell and one guard was for every three prisoners. Thirty -six men tried 14 different escape from the prison in 29 years, and almost everything was caught or died in the experiment.
Why was alcatraz closed
But the prison was closed in March 1963. Its facilities were crumbled and their restoration would cost $ 3-5 million and its isolated location made operating costs too expensive – three times higher According to the prison office, water had to be transported.
The prison has long been a place of public enthusiasm. It was reflected in the 1962 film Alcatraz's birdman About Robert Stroud, a convicted companion who investigated the birds he saw, at the time of imprisonment and became an ornithologist, even finding the treatment of a hemorrhagic disease of ordinary birds. It was also reflected in the 1979 film Escape from AlcatrazStarring Clint Eastwood and relying on the real life of the year 1962, never found, and also on the 1996 fictional thrill film CliffStarring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage.
After buying NPS in 1972, the island has become the main tourist magnet and, according to the agency, more than one million visitors are introduced each year.
How the Prison Bureau and others have responded
A spokesman for the prison office notice Associated Press that BOP follows all the orders of the presidential election but did not explain how this prison will restore or reopen until it is under the jurisdiction of NPs whose employees and funding have been endangered in favor of Trump cutsEspecially if Bop is in trouble Keep your facilities open in the midst of a worsening infrastructure and staff. “The President's proposal is not serious,”, a former house Speaker and California Democrat representative Nancy Pelosi posted X.
