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(AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years.<\/p>

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In a post on his Truth Social site Sunday evening, Trump wrote that, \u201cFor 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. 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\u2019s the way it\u2019s supposed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat is why, today,\u201d he said, \u201cI 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\u2019s most ruthless and violent Offenders.\u201d<\/p>

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Trump\u2019s directive to rebuild and reopen the long-shuttered penitentiary was the latest salvo in his effort to overhaul how and where federal prisoners and immigration detainees<\/a> are locked up. But such a move would likely be an expensive and challenging proposition. The prison was closed in 1963 due to crumbling infrastructure and the high costs of repairing and supplying the island facility, because everything from fuel to food had to be brought by boat.<\/p>

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Bringing the facility up to modern-day standards would require massive investments at a time when the Bureau of Prisons has been shuttering prisons for similar infrastructure issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prison \u2014 infamously inescapable due to the strong ocean currents and cold Pacific waters that surround it \u2014 was known as the \u201cThe Rock\u201d and housed some of the nation\u2019s most notorious criminals, including gangster Al Capone and George \u201cMachine Gun\u201d Kelly.<\/p>

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It has long been part of the cultural imagination and has been the subject of numerous movies, including \u201cThe Rock\u201d starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still in the 29 years it was open, 36 men attempted 14 separate escapes, according to the FBI. Nearly all were caught or didn\u2019t survive the attempt.<\/p>

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The fate of three particular inmates \u2014 John Anglin, his brother Clarence and Frank Morris \u2014 is of some debate and was dramatized in the 1979 film \u201cEscape from Alcatraz\u201d starring Clint Eastwood.<\/p>

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Alcatraz Island is now a major tourist site that is operate by the National Park Service and is a designated National Historic Landmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, returning to the White House on Sunday night after a weekend in Florida, said he\u2019d come up with the idea because of frustrations with \u201cradicalized judges\u201d<\/a> who have insisted those being deported receive due process. Alcatraz, he said, has long been a \u201csymbol of law and order. You know, it\u2019s got quite a history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement that the agency \u201cwill comply with all Presidential Orders.\u201d The spokesperson did not immediately answer questions from The Associated Press regarding the practicality and feasibility of reopening Alcatraz or the agency\u2019s role in the future of the former prison given the National Park Service\u2019s control of the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat whose district includes the island, questioned the feasibility of reopening the prison after so many years. \u201cIt is now a very popular national park and major tourist attraction. The President\u2019s proposal is not a serious one,\u201d she wrote on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The island serves as a veritable time machine to a bygone era of corrections. The Bureau of Prisons currently has 16 penitentiaries performing the same high-security functions as Alcatraz, including its maximum security facility in Florence, Colorado, and the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, which is home to the federal death chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The order comes as Trump has been clashing with the courts as he tries to send accused gang members<\/a> to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, without due process. Trump has also floated the legally dubious idea of sending some federal U.S. prisoners to the Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has also directed the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay<\/a>, Cuba, to hold up to 30,000 of what he has labeled the \u201cworst criminal aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bureau of Prisons has faced myriad crises in recent years and has been subjected to increased scrutiny after Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s suicide<\/a> at a federal jail in New York City in 2019. An AP investigation uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons. AP reporting has disclosed widespread criminal activity by employees, dozens of escapes, chronic violence, deaths and severe staffing shortages that have hampered responses to emergencies, including assaults and suicides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AP\u2019s investigation also exposed rampant sexual abuse at a federal women\u2019s prison in Dublin, California<\/a>. Last year, President Joe Biden signed a law<\/a> strengthening oversight of the agency after AP reporting spotlighted its many flaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, the Bureau of Prisons is operating in a state of flux \u2014 with a recently installed new director and a redefined mission that includes taking in thousands of immigration detainees at some of its prisons and jails under an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security. The agency last year closed several facilities, in part to cut costs, but is also in the process of building a new prison in Kentucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sisak reported from Philadelphia. Associated Press writers Gary Fields in Washington, Aamer Madhani in West Palm Beach, Florida, and Michael Balsamo in New York contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n

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