FOX Enterprise American Constructed explores the beginnings of San Franciscos island-based penitentiary.
President Donald Trump on Sunday introduced that he is directing federal companies to reopen the jail at Alcatraz after rebuilding and increasing the jail that was shuttered over 60 years in the past and at present serves as a museum and vacationer vacation spot within the San Francisco Bay Space.
The utmost-security federal penitentiary at Alcatraz Island opened in 1934, positioned 1.25 miles from the coast, the place it was regarded as escape-proof due to the San Francisco Bay’s robust currents and shark-infested waters. The federal jail housed infamous criminals like Al Capone, and noticed a high-profile escape that impressed the 1979 Hollywood movie “Escape from Alcatraz.”
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The jail at Alcatraz closed in 1963 as a result of it was now not cost-effective in comparison with different prisons. Forward of its closure, the Bureau of Prisons mentioned Alcatraz’s working prices have been over 3 times that of some other federal jail in 1959 – $10.10 each day per capita price in contrast with $3 in Atlanta.
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These prices have been as a result of all of the jail’s meals, water, gasoline and different provides needed to be taken by boat to the island, whereas the jail’s infrastructure was crumbling because of the maritime surroundings, inflicting tens of millions of {dollars} in deferred upkeep.
Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay as seen from Treasure Island in San Francisco, on Sept. 18, 2024. (Photograph by Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle by way of Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Accountability for the previous jail on Alcatraz was given to the Division of the Inside in 1972 to be a part of Golden Gate Nationwide Recreation Space, which is operated by the Nationwide Park Service and has turned the positioning right into a vacationer attraction, producing tens of tens of millions of {dollars} per yr.
The Nationwide Park Service mentioned final yr that Alcatraz Island hosts about 1.6 million guests yearly and generates about $60 million in annual income. A lot of that funding is used to assist finance park initiatives.
An aerial view exhibits Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, California, on Could 16, 2024. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP by way of Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
NPS has additionally been engaged on the $40 million rehabilitation of Alcatraz Island’s wharf, which hasn’t been up to date because it was first in-built 1939. That undertaking is predicted to be accomplished on the finish of this yr.
Alcatraz was designated as a Nationwide Historic Landmark in 1986. That designation could be thought-about for withdrawal on the request of the proprietor or by the secretary of the inside, in keeping with the Nationwide Park Service.
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A view contained in the jail on Alcatraz Island. (Araya Doheny/Getty Pictures for Alcatraz Metropolis Cruises / Getty Pictures)
Trump mentioned in a Sunday submit on social media platform Reality Social that he’s directing federal companies to “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!”
“For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering,” the president wrote. “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.”
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“That is why, today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders,” Trump mentioned.
