Even as the Bureau of Prisons struggles with short staffing, chronic violence and crumbling infrastructure at its current facilities, Trump is counting on the agency to fulfill his vision of rebooting the infamously inescapable prison known in movies and pop culture as The Rock.
And now, a stunning directive from President Donald Trump for the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons to REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ! the notorious penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay that last held inmates more than 60 years ago.
Trump declared in a social media post Sunday that a substantially enlarged and rebuilt Alcatraz will house the nation's most ruthless and violent Offenders.
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