After elevating purple flags along with his administration’s plans to deport and jail U.S. residents overseas, Donald Trump is reopening one of many nation’s most infamous prisons.
On Sunday, the president introduced plans to “rebuild and open” Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, which sits on an island off the coast of San Francisco and has been out of fee since 1963, and operated by the Nationwide Park Service since 1972.
“REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ! For too lengthy, America has been tormented by vicious, violent, and repeat Legal Offenders, the dregs of society, who won’t ever contribute something apart from Distress and Struggling,” he wrote on Fact Social. “Once we had been a extra critical Nation, in occasions previous, we didn’t hesitate to lock up essentially the most harmful criminals, and maintain them far-off from anybody they might hurt. That’s the way in which it’s speculated to be. Now not will we tolerate these Serial Offenders who unfold filth, bloodshed, and mayhem on our streets.”
Trump added, “That’s the reason, right this moment, I’m directing the Bureau of Prisons, along with the Division of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Safety, to reopen a considerably enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to deal with America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders. We’ll not be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and Judges which can be afraid to do their job and permit us to take away criminals, who got here into our Nation illegally. The reopening of ALCATRAZ will function an emblem of Legislation, Order, and JUSTICE. We’ll, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons instructed the Related Press that they “will adjust to all Presidential Orders.”
Open from 1934 to 1963, Alcatraz (aka The Rock) was infamous for its seclusion within the chilly, harsh, shark-infested waters of the San Francisco Bay. At the least 36 males tried to flee throughout that point, practically all of whom had been captured or died. The jail has since been featured in such movies as Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Escape from Alcatraz (1979) and The Rock (1996), additionally serving as a filming location in quite a few different tasks, in addition to a vacationer attraction over the a long time.
In January, Trump issued an order for the Pentagon and the Division of Homeland Safety to reopen a detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba to carry as much as 30,000 immigrants deported from the U.S., whom the POTUS described as “the worst prison unlawful aliens threatening the American individuals.”
The Trump administration has most not too long ago confronted scrutiny for sending greater than 200 alleged gang members from Venezuela to a infamous mega-prison in El Salvador with out due course of.
“The homegrowns are subsequent, the homegrowns. You’ve bought to construct about 5 extra locations,” stated Trump final month of plans to jail U.S. residents overseas.
