Alcatraz closed as a federal prison in 1963 after just 29 years of operation because it was too expensive to continue, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The per-capita cost of housing prisoners there was substantially higher than other correctional facilities. In addition, corrosion from the salt air of San Francisco Bay means the facility requires additional maintenance to sustain that prisons in other locations don’t.
I thought we were trying to save money
Yeah, but he also want to put in jail everyone that disagrees with him so they need somewhere to place them.
But Missouri already exists
Touche, touche.
GAWD DAYUM
Please. No. This state already sucks as it is.
Send them to Florida.
Fascism 101: never take fascists at their word. Pointing out hypocrisy is meaningless because they never meant it in the first place.
Things that won’t happen.
The salt from the ocean has corroded the bars, a good kick likely would open the windows. To secure the place would take years of rework or just outright tear down and rebuild.
The place hasn’t had proper upkeep since the late 1960s and honestly very likely before then too. It wouldn’t serve to secure anyone that various places out in the Midwestern desert regions wouldn’t do multiple times better.
You think they won’t give out a contract worth tens of millions to update a math balled prison to someone they know?
This is America.
Pretty sure that’s the entire point of this whole thing. Give an insanely overbid contract to someone who will then launder back a sizable portion of it in campaign donations or crypto meme coin purchases. Continue grift until the money runs out.
The strength of the bars was never Alcatraz’s selling point. It’s the location.
Well the bars kind of need to have a particular bit of strength to prevent prisoners from taking over the place.
This is still about the location, but not in the way you’d expect. It’s near Hollywood so movies were made about it and it’s the next most notorious American prison after Guantanamo that Trump has heard of. I guarantee this is his Plan B after Guantanamo didn’t work out.
The prison camp isn’t where they want to hold them. It’s the Guantanamo Bay’s Migrant Operations Center where they want to hold them. It suffers the same issues at Alcatraz, so either way they want to slice the bread here, they have to go through a set of hoops to get it to any kind of position to hold long term prisoners.
Alcatraz is a derelict. Getting it up to a functioning prison standard would almost assuredly take knocking it down with heavy equipment and starting over from zero. You could probably, unironically, finish high speed rail for the same time and financial cost, but then you couldn’t try to impress people by showing everyone that you’re the world’s only banana republic dictator with no drip.
You’re assuming Trump cares if it’s up to code. He doesn’t
I’m not sure if you took my meaning. Alcatraz is inoperable. If we moved to cars as a metaphor, we’re not talking about “it can’t pass smog”, we’re talking about “Boomer’s fixer upper that’s been untouched in the front yard for forty years and is basically unusable as even scrap metal”.
Also, you can’t build prisons on national parks.
Cheaper to just build one in west Texas.
He wants to use the brand recognition as an intimidation tactic.
Nah, escape from Alcatraz was on TMC or Nick at night last night
Asshole probably tuned in to Shawshank and couldn’t keep it straight.
He wants all those dirty hippies in San Francisco to look at it every day.
“They’re trying to build a prison!”
“For you and me to live in!”
“They’re trying to build a prison!”
“FOR YOU AND ME!”
Hahaha. Take the tour first and see if it’s up to snuff.
And which private jail company is he going to immediately sell it to?
Wasn’t one alleged point of DOGE was to reduce government waste? Alcatraz was closed due to it being a ridiculously expensive prison. Much more than any other prison at the time.
It was this, not the famous escape of 1963 that caused it to close.
Everyone needs to stop reporting on anything he just says. Instead the media should exclusively focus on what he actually does. Did he issue any executive order about it? Did he instruct congress to do anything anything about it? No? Then I don’t dive a shit, and neither should anyone else.
I’d rather fight back before he actually takes the action.
Alcatraz was originally closed because it was extraordinarily expensive to run and it wasn’t very useful given the alternatives.
“you had me at extraordinarily expensive” DJT
For his political enemies?
Congratulations to Brainrot for defeating Humanity
the insects turn is coming up. Probably sooner than we think. Thats if the AI doesnt get them first.
He’s fucking demented. Like literally and medically.
This is like something an uninformed kid would say. “Ooh! A scary-sounding prison on an island! Yeah, let’s fix that up and use it for real!”
As long as we put him in it I’m fine with that
Moron cunt.
