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Trump Orders Alcatraz Prison to Be Reopened And Expanded to House The Dregs of Society

Donald Trump has vowed to rebuild and open Alcatraz as he seeks to crack down on violent criminals and illegal migrants.

MailOnline 5 MAY 2025




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In a post shared to Truth Social on Sunday night, Trump said the reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE.




Trump has directed the Bureau of Prisons to work alongside the Department of Justice, FBI and Homeland Security to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt Alcatraz.

He said the notorious facility, which once held famed gangster Al Capone, will house Americas most ruthless and violent Offenders


The order comes as Trump has repeatedly clashed with the courts as he tries to send accused gang members and illegal migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The maximum security prison, which was shut down in 1963, will provide Trump a workaround to those court orders barring him from carrying out the mass deportation scheme.

We will no longer be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and Judges that are afraid to do their job and allow us to remove criminals, who came into our Country illegally, he wrote, appearing to suggest illegal migrants will be the first sent to the prison.















Trump has also directed the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold up to 30,000 of what he has labelled the worst criminal aliens.


Despite housing a host of notorious inmates, the prison was catapulted to fame in the 1996 movie The Rock, starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage.

But one of the leading factors in the decision to shutter it for good was the cost of restoration and maintenance.

The Bureau of Prisons at the time said it would have cost an estimated $3million to $5million simply to keep the doors open.

That figure did not include daily operating costs Alcatraz was nearly three times more expensive to operate than any other Federal prison, in 1959 the daily per capita cost at Alcatraz was $10.10 compared with $3.00 at USP Atlanta a spokesperson said at the time.

The main expense was due to the fact that Alcatraz was an island and all of the goods had to be shipped in.

The island had no source of fresh water, so nearly one million gallons of water had to be barged to the island each week, the spokesperson said. The Federal Government found that it was more cost effective to build a new institution than to keep Alcatraz open.

Following the announcement of its closure, signed off by US Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Alcatrazs population was slowly whittled down, with inmates redistributed to other federal prisons.

According to the Bureau of Prisons, an estimated $3 million to $5 million was needed just for restoration and maintenance work to keep the prison open






There were 1,576 prisoners held in Alcatraz over that time and it was notorious for its primative conditions.





But one cell will be specially reserved for the BIGGEST crook of all...







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