Alcatraz II? Good thinking – Latest News
Can President Trump make Alcatraz a jail again?
It’s an intriguing thought.
The president’s fiscal yr 2027 finances proposal, despatched to Congress on Friday, requested $152 million to revive the long-lasting lockup and return it to operation.
The objective: to make Alcatraz a “state-of-the-art secure prison facility,” the finances plan stated — a image of justice.
The thought has promise, and Congress ought to give it due consideration.
The president shared his thinking in May in a post on X: “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ! …. When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals … 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.”
He has a level.
Restoring “The Rock” would deliver back its mystique and put as we speak’s crime lords on discover. Getty Images
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Progressive politicians and prosecutors sympathize with criminals nowadays, letting perps stroll free to victimize others, generally repeatedly.
That’s mistaken. Trump is aware of it — and Alcatraz II would give the message an imposing exclamation level.
For a long time, the fortress caged the worst criminals in America, together with Al Capone, George “Machine Gun” Kelly, and Robert Stroud (the “Birdman of Alcatraz”).
Gangers, killers, kidnappers — all contained in a 22-acre island jail patrolled by sharks. It was the stuff of legend.
Restoring “The Rock” would faucet that mystique and put as we speak’s offenders on discover: One of these cells could possibly be yours.
Of course (as a result of TDS), the standard suspects sneered on the thought.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose district consists of Alcatraz, posted on X final week:
“Rebuilding Alcatraz into a modern prison is a stupid notion that would be nothing more than a waste of taxpayer dollars and an insult to the intelligence of the American people.”
Says the lady who would by no means waste taxpayer {dollars} or insult Americans’ intelligence (equivalent to by saying, as she did of Obamacare, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”)
But on a critical notice, questions on a Rock revival stay — together with the high price of boating provides to and from Alcatraz and the island’s designation as a national historic landmark.
But … if anybody is aware of how to construct issues, it’s Donald Trump.
He didn’t get the place he’s by heeding critics, abiding conference, or taking “you’re crazy” for an reply.
On the opposite: The president has demonstrated he can assume exterior the norm, develop real estate, and get myriad massive issues completed.
And if he can pull it off … what higher monument to Law and Order?
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