Alcatraz Island
US President Donald Trump has announced that he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the infamous former prison on an island off the coast of California.
In a message on his Truth Social site on Sunday, PTrump said that "for too long America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat criminal offenders".
The reopening of Alcatraz would serve as a "symbol of law, order, and justice," he said.
The prison was closed in 1963, with Alcatraz Island, situated near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, currently being operated as a tourist site.
Trump wrote that he was directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to "reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ."
The intention, he said, was for the prison, which has a near mythical reputation, to "house America's most ruthless and violent Offenders."
Trump has been clashing with the courts over his policy of sending alleged gang members to a prison in El Salvador. In March, he sent a group of more than 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members there. He has also talked about sending "homegrown criminals" to foreign prisons.
SOURCE: BBC
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