President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he will direct many federal agencies to “reopen and rebuild it, a federal prison for decades and is now a national park.
“Reconstruction, opening the katraz! For a long time, America has been afflicted with evil criminals, violence and repetitions, who will never contribute anything other than misery and suffering,” Trump, Trump. Books in a social function of truth.
He added: “I direct the Prison Office, along with the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Investigation Office and Internal Security, to reopen and rebuild it, to accommodate the most harsh perpetrators and violence in America.”
Alcatraz, a former military fort and a prison located in the Gulf of San Francisco, was converted into a federal prison in 1934 over 29 years. more than 1500 people “is considered to be difficult to imprison elsewhere in the Federal Prison System,” according to L. National Park Service.
according to A Study of the National Park ServiceInitially, it was not appropriate to work as a federal institution due to its small size, isolated location and the lack of fresh water. However, Sanford Bates, Director of the Prison Office in 1933 She later found “a perfect place to be imprisoned for about 200 despair or unorganized types.” It was officially opened as a federal prison the following year.
Trump suggested in office that he wanted to restore the facility for this purpose.
He wrote: “When we were a more dangerous nation, in the past times, we have not hesitate to hold the most dangerous criminals, and keep them away from anyone who could harm. This is the way it is supposed to be.”
The prison office did not immediately return a request to comment on Sunday night.
According to Prison OfficeThe average population of Catraz while using 260-275 people was between 260-275 people. The facility has never reached 336 people and kept less than one percent of the total number of federal prisoners.
Trump appears to indicate that the island can be used to accommodate some undocumented immigrants that he was seeking to remove from the country, and a pointed reference in his position to “the judges who fear their work and allow us to remove criminals who have reached our country illegally.”
In March, Trump sent more than 200 deportations accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang to the Terrorism Center in El Salvador, on the pretext of his detention from Foreign enemies law It enabled him to do this, despite a federal judge Prevent the effort.
Trump’s federal judge last week unacceptable Trump’s invitation to foreign enemies to deport the alleged Venezuelan gang members.
Trump criticized the judicial rulings while explaining the logical basis for reopening the prison on Sunday evening, describing Al -Katraz as the famous “code of law and order”.
“The judges, many of these extremist judges want to make trials for each one, each person in our country illegally,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Sunday evening. “This means millions of experiences, which is very ridiculous.”
In March, Trump announced an attempt to detention immigrants who seek to deport him in the Gulf of Guanamo, Cuba, but concerns about the legitimacy and cost of this step led to the administration to the administration Reconsidering the plan.
Prison Office Currently work At least 120 federal institutions manage a population of 156254 people.
It is unclear how much this step, which is considering the constant budget restrictions in the prison office, which in December The union said Some of its employees, who planned to close many facilities.
Alcatraz was closed as a maintenance in 1963, according to Prison OfficeBecause of the expensive operating costs, which have increased the number of material isolation of the island, which means that all food and supplies should have been delivered by the boat.
“There was an estimated 3 to 5 million dollars for restoration and maintenance work to keep the prison open. This number did not include daily operating costs-Alcatraz was three times more expensive than any other federal prison,” the prison office wrote about the closure of prisons.
Nearly a decade, in 1972, Congress created the Golden Gate National Entertainment, which included Alcatraz. The complex has become open to the public after a year, and it has since become among the most popular national garden service sites, according to the agency, as it hosted more than a million visitors annually.
Former House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, whose area includes Al -Jazeera, said that Trump’s proposal is “not dangerous,” pointing to “, referring to” In a post on x The island is now a “major tourist attraction”.
A spokesman for California Governor Gavin News has also reduced the legitimacy of the idea.
“It seems that the day of distraction is again in Washington, DC,” said Diana Crofits Beliio, Deputy Director of Communications at Newsom.
