The US president said he was directing the Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice, the FBI and Homeland Security “to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt Alcatraz”.
“When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.
A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement that the agency “will comply with all Presidential Orders”.
It has long been part of the cultural imagination and has been the subject of numerous movies, including The Rock starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage.
A visitor to Alcatraz Island’s former federal prison leans against a B Block cell. Trump wants to reopen it to America’s ‘most violent and ruthless’ criminals (Photo: Noah Berger/File Photo/Reuters)Alcatraz Island is now a major tourist site that is operated by the National Park Service and is a designated National Historic Landmark.
It was nearly three times more costly to operate than any other federal prison, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) website said.
The order comes as Trump has been clashing with the courts as he tries to send accused gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador, without due process.
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