Trump Says He Will Order US to Reopen Alcatraz as Federal Prison
Trump Says He Will Order US to Reopen Alcatraz as Federal Prison
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Things that won't happen.
The salt from the ocean has corroded the bars, a good kick likely would open the windows. To secure the place would take years of rework or just outright tear down and rebuild.
The place hasn't had proper upkeep since the late 1960s and honestly very likely before then too. It wouldn't serve to secure anyone that various places out in the Midwestern desert regions wouldn't do multiple times better.
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Alcatraz is a derelict. Getting it up to a functioning prison standard would almost assuredly take knocking it down with heavy equipment and starting over from zero. You could probably, unironically, finish high speed rail for the same time and financial cost, but then you couldn't try to impress people by showing everyone that you're the world's only banana republic dictator with no drip.
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Make rail drip again
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You're assuming Trump cares if it's up to code. He doesn't
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I'm not sure if you took my meaning. Alcatraz is inoperable. If we moved to cars as a metaphor, we're not talking about "it can't pass smog", we're talking about "Boomer's fixer upper that's been untouched in the front yard for thirty years and is basically unusable as even scrap metal".
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You think they won't give out a contract worth tens of millions to update a math balled prison to someone they know?
This is America.
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Pretty sure that’s the entire point of this whole thing. Give an insanely overbid contract to someone who will then launder back a sizable portion of it in campaign donations or crypto meme coin purchases. Continue grift until the money runs out.
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millions
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I think your "b" broke and fell over backwards, but I brought you a new one.
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Also, you can't build prisons on national parks.
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Why? Cause it is against the law?
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Lol
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The strength of the bars was never Alcatraz's selling point. It's the location.
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This is still about the location, but not in the way you’d expect. It’s near Hollywood so movies were made about it and it’s the next most notorious American prison after Guantanamo that Trump has heard of. I guarantee this is his Plan B after Guantanamo didn’t work out.
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The prison camp isn't where they want to hold them. It's the Guantanamo Bay's Migrant Operations Center where they want to hold them. It suffers the same issues at Alcatraz, so either way they want to slice the bread here, they have to go through a set of hoops to get it to any kind of position to hold long term prisoners.
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Well the bars kind of need to have a particular bit of strength to prevent prisoners from taking over the place.
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