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The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them
- In 2025, President Donald Trump directed the Bureau of Prisons to renovate and reopen Alcatraz Island as a high-security facility.
- Trump's directive follows longstanding challenges including widespread understaffing, violence, and deteriorating infrastructure that have plagued the Bureau of Prisons.
- Alcatraz is a 22-acre island located under two miles off San Francisco, once a federal penitentiary from 1934 to 1963, now a popular national historic landmark and tourist site.
- Trump described Alcatraz as a 'symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE' to house the nation's most ruthless offenders, while the Bureau's new director pledged to support the president's agenda vigorously.
- Lawmakers and experts widely view reopening Alcatraz as impractical given its cost, current use as a museum, and the Bureau's ongoing crises, suggesting the plan may serve as a political distraction.
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From cells to suites - what about an Alcatraz Riviera?
President Donald Trump says he wants to make Alcatraz a prison again (“How Alcatraz became America’s most notorious prison‚” May 11). But why not just add it to the many places he says he’s seeking to develop into a new mini-Riviera?Mary Kay Dessoffy,
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