US EditionThe federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them
- President Donald Trump issued a directive on Sunday to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison housing the most violent offenders near San Francisco.
- The order addresses the Bureau of Prisons' ongoing crisis characterized by severe employee shortages, deteriorating facilities, inmate violence, and the permanent shutdown of several locations, including the prison complex near Dublin, California.
- Alcatraz, a 22-acre island closed in 1963 due to high costs and deteriorating conditions, once held notorious criminals like Al Capone and is now a historic landmark and tourist site.
- The Bureau of Prisons faces over 4,000 staff vacancies and thousands of unusable beds due to unsafe conditions, while Director William K. Marshall III pledged to support and assess the reopening plan promptly.
- Reopening Alcatraz poses operational and financial challenges amid ongoing systemic problems, raising questions about the facility's future role in a troubled federal prison system.
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Trump Says Alcatraz Prison Is Unbreakable. History Says Otherwise
US President Donald Trump declared "nobody ever escaped from Alcatraz," outlining plans to reopen the island prison. It was shut down more than six decades ago. As far as Trump's claims are concerned, history says otherwise.
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