Prime Trump officers toured Alcatraz Island off California immediately for a go to geared toward measuring the feasibility of reverting the nationwide park to a jail, a requirement Trump made on Fact Social again in Might.
Fox Information accompanied Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi and Inside Secretary Doug Burgum as they toured the federal facility, which closed as a federal penitentiary in 1963, in line with the Bureau of Prisons. It has operated as a nationwide park since 1972.
“It’s a federal property. Its unique use was a jail, and so a part of this might be to check the feasibility about returning it again to its unique use,” mentioned Burgum, who oversees nationwide parks.
Trump had directed the federal officers to “to reopen a considerably enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to accommodate America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.”
Bondi echoed the decision in the course of the tour, telling Fox Information that these housed within the facility, ought to it reopen, would come with “the worst of the worst.”
“It may maintain middle-class, violent prisoners. It may maintain — it may maintain unlawful aliens. It may maintain something. It is a terrific facility [that] wants lots of work, however nobody has been recognized to flee from Alcatraz and survive,” Bondi mentioned.
Throughout its time as a penitentiary, Alcatraz had a capability of greater than 300 folks and was designed to accommodate “probably the most harmful criminals.” Nonetheless, difficulties sending provides to the island, in addition to excessive working prices, led to its closing.
California officers have doubted the chance of the ability’s reopening as a jail, with Gov. Gavin Newsom saying in an announcement: “Pam Bondi will reopen Alcatraz the identical day Trump lets her launch the Epstein recordsdata. So… by no means.”
