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Trump, Alcatraz and Bureau of Prisons

BBC on MSN · 1h

He may be Alcatraz's last living inmate. Here's what he thinks of Trump's plan to reopen prison

In an interview with the BBC this week, Hopkins described life at Alcatraz, where he made friends with gangsters and once helped plan an unsuccessful escape. Although it closed decades ago, President Donald Trump claimed recently that he wants to re-open it as a federal prison.

The New York Times · 3d

Alcatraz as a Prison? Tourists Say Trump Is on His Own Island.

At the beloved attraction in San Francisco Bay, visitors could scarcely believe President Trump had suggested turning Alcatraz back into a penitentiary.

East Bay Times · 2d

Trump directs Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz. Can he do that?

President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on an island off of San Francisco that has been closed since 1963.

18hon MSN

Uncle Sam’s Devil’s Island: From Al Capone to ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly, meet Alcatraz’s most infamous inmates

Take a look a the most infamous inmates at Alcatraz as President Donald Trump is looking to reopen the prison off the coast ...

Las Vegas Sun1d

Alcatraz was too expensive to keep open

At its peak, the facility was nearly three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons, largely due to its ...

2d

How Alcatraz became America's most notorious prison

Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again saying it's needed to house America's "most ruthless and violent" ...

3don MSN

Alcatraz 2.0: Fmr. FBI agent floats 'perfect' new prison site that would scare even most hardened criminals

A former FBI agent floated an alternative location for President Donald Trump's revamped Alcatraz prison, which he thinks ...

Axios on MSN2d

Real to reel: The movies that made Alcatraz famous

With the Trump administration moving to reopen Alcatraz as a prison, it's time to revisit some of the movies that made the ...

3don MSN

Newsom calls President Trump's order to reopen Alcatraz a "colossally bad fiscal idea"

California Governor Gavin Newsom said nothing about President Trump's order to reopen and rebuild the notorious Alcatraz ...

5d

When was Alcatraz built? Why was Alcatraz closed six decades ago?

President Donald Trump has announced he wants to reopen California's notorious and historic prison off the coast of San ...

2don MSNOpinion

The real threat behind reopening Alcatraz

Reopening it is nostalgia for an America where power ran roughshod over true justice, and police were an authority not to be ...

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