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Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz as a prison - could it happen?
Trump administration officials have toured Alcatraz, the once-notorious prison island in the icy waters of San Francisco Bay that the Trump administration is seeking to re-open for prisoners. Alcatraz - popularly known as "the Rock" - has not been used as a prison for decades. It is now a historic landmark visited by millions of tourists each year.
In 1981, Alcatraz Island was one of 14 sites evaluated as the Reagan Administration searched for a location to hold 10,000 to 20,000 Cuban detainees during the Mariel Boatlift.
For much of its cold, damp, bitter prison life, Alcatraz was a place you’d kill to leave, and many an inmate tried. They plotted elaborate escapes, took shivs to cell walls, mapped routes ...
For 29 years, Alcatraz — the notorious prison off the coast of San Francisco — housed some of the nation's worst criminals: Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, Birdman Robert Stroud. Today, 50 years ...
This week’s episode of Alcatraz had less to do with the psyche of “the killer-of-the-week” and more to do with teasing the mystery of the reappearance of the so-called ’63s — which was ...
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