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Occupation of Alcatraz: 50 years aboriginal
President Trump said Sunday helium is directing his medication to reopen and grow Alcatraz, the notorious erstwhile situation connected an land adjacent San Francisco, California.
In a station connected his Truth Social site, Mr. Trump wrote that, "For excessively long, America has been plagued by vicious, convulsive and repetition Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who volition ne'er lend thing different than Misery and Suffering. When we were a much superior Nation, successful times past, we did not hesitate to fastener up the astir unsafe criminals, and support them acold distant from anyone they could harm. That's the mode it's expected to be."
A wide presumption of Alcatraz Island connected August 16, 2024 adjacent San Francisco, California.
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Mr. Trump said helium is directing the Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security to "reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to location America's astir ruthless and convulsive Offenders."
"The reopening of ALCATRAZ volition service arsenic a awesome of Law, Order and JUSTICE," helium added.
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons told the Associated Press successful a connection that the bureau "will comply with each Presidential Orders." The spokesperson did not instantly reply the AP's questions regarding the practicality and feasibility of reopening Alcatraz oregon the agency's relation successful the aboriginal of the erstwhile situation fixed the National Park Service's power of the island.
Mr. Trump's societal media station comes arsenic helium has been clashing with the courts arsenic helium tries to nonstop accused pack members to a notorious situation successful El Salvador, without due process. Mr. Trump has besides talked astir wanting to send American citizens there and to different overseas prisons.
What was Alcatraz prison?
Alcatraz prison, located connected Alcatraz Island located conscionable implicit a mile northbound of San Francisco, was a maximum-security, minimum-privilege situation opened successful 1934 to woody with the "most incorrigible inmates successful national prisons," the Bureau of Prisons says.
It was besides to "show the law-abiding nationalist that the Federal Government was superior astir stopping the rampant transgression of the 1920s and 1930s," the Bureau said connected its website.
Southwest presumption connected Cell Block 'A' successful Alcatraz Prison, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, United States.
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Well-known criminals specified arsenic Al Capone, George "Machine-Gun" Kelly, Alvin Karpis (the archetypal "Public Enemy No. 1) and Arthur "Doc" Barker did clip successful Alcatraz, according to the BOP. However, astir of the prisoners were not infamous gangsters but prisoners who refused to conform to the rules and regulations of different national institutions.
Alcatraz had a capableness of 336 prisoners, though the mean colonisation was lone astir 260 to 275 astatine immoderate fixed time.
Over the 29 years that it operated, 36 men were progressive successful 14 abstracted escape attempts. Of these, 23 were caught, six were changeable and killed and 2 drowned.
It closed connected March 21, 1963, due to the fact that the situation was excessively costly to proceed to operate, the BOP said.
After it closed, it was fundamentally abandoned. In 1969, a radical of Native American Indians occupied Alcatraz for 18 months, claiming it arsenic Indian land.
Can radical sojourn Alcatraz?
After its closure, the situation was often portrayed arsenic "America's Devil's Island" successful books and movies.
In 1972, Congress created the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the land wherever Alcatraz sits connected was included arsenic portion of a caller National Park Service site. The land opened to tourists successful the autumn of 1973 and has go 1 of the astir fashionable National Park Service sites.
Alcatraz Island continues to run arsenic a tourer tract to this day.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Lucia Suarez Sang is an subordinate managing exertion astatine CBSNews.com. Previously, Lucia was the manager of integer contented astatine FOX61 News successful Connecticut and has antecedently written for outlets including FoxNews.com, Fox News Latino and the Rutland Herald.
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