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Trump’s best officials visited Alcatraz Island off California today for a visit to measure the feasibility of returning the National Park to a prison, a request that Trump on social truth in May.
Fox News accompanied the Attorney General Pam Bondi and the interior secretary Doug Burgum while they were aiming for the federal installation, who closed as a federal penitentiary in 1963, according to the prison office. It has been operating as a national park since 1972.
“It is a federal property. Its initial use was a prison, and therefore part of this would be to test the feasibility of bringing it back to its initial use,” said Burgum, who supervises national parks.
Trump had ordered federal officials to “reopen a considerably enlarged and rebuilt alcatraz, to house the most ruthless and violent offenders in America”.
Bondi echoes the call during the tour, telling Fox News that those who were hosted in the establishment, if it would reopen, would include “the worst of the worst”.
“He could contain violent prisoners of the middle class. [that] needs a lot of work, but no one was known to escape Alcatraz and survive, “said Bondi.
During his time as a penitentiary, Alcatraz had a capacity of more than 300 people and was designed to house “the most dangerous criminals”. However, the difficulties of sending supplies to the island, as well as high operating costs, led to the fence.
Californian officials have doubted the probability that the reopening of the establishment as a prison, Governor Gavin Newsom saying in a press release: “Pam Bondi will reopen Alcatraz the same day as Trump allows him to release Epstein files. So … never.”
