Bureau of Prisons director 'excited' about reopening Alcatraz as max-security prison

Pres. Trump moves forward with plan to turn Alcatraz back into federal prison, report says

Despite many believing that reopening the notorious San Francisco prison would be unrealistic and expensive, officials from the Federal Bureau of Prisons are said to have visited the island last week.

Trump Still Barreling Forward With Certifiably Insane Plan to Reopen Alcatraz as a Prison

President Trump’s Federal Bureau of Prisons officials insist they are moving forward with their out-to-lunch scheme to reopen the tourist site Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison, despite that this is all galactically unrealistic.We’re not sure where President Trump developed his fever-swamp fantasy that Alcatraz could be reopened as a maximum-security prison. It may be because he watched Clint Eastwood’s Escape From Alcatraz and it gave him t…

Trump’s prison officials visited Alcatraz to assess reopening it

How feasible the president’s plan to revive the historic maximum security penitentiary might be is a matter of some debate among experts

Bureau of Prisons director 'excited' about reopening Alcatraz as max-security prison

President Trump is now getting the wheels in motion on his plan to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security prison.

"Reconstruct and reopen Alcatraz!" said Donald Trump, who wants to lock down the "most ruthless and violent" criminals there. Nicknamed "the Rock", this former military fort off San Francisco and converted to a penitentiary closed its doors in 1963. Reputable inviolable, the island-prison, where an iron discipline reigned and whose legend Hollywood forged, remains a symbol of punitive America.

The defendants have managed to escape from the chain where they were forced to flee.