Trump Says He Plans to Reopen Alcatraz as a Federal Prison
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President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that he has ordered the reopening of Alcatraz as a prison to “house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.”
Trump said he’s directing the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, the FBI and Homeland Security to rebuild and substantially enlarge the former maximum security facility, which sits on an island in San Francisco Bay. His post didn’t disclose the costs of such a move, nor an expected timeline for the reopening.