Here are the details on Trump's reopening of Alcatraz. Yes, this is happening.

Not The Bee ^ | May 05, 2025 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Staffing would be difficult................

[Red Badger]

Yes, I’m sure that this is just a troll of the Left, just to watch them go off the rails.................

[ansel12]

What would a guard have to make to afford to live there comfortably?

[Magnum44]

Yes, it would understandably.

But we have staffed such places before. Adak comes to mind.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Sounds more like Ebonics, which is southern plantation speech, such as prolly.

[discostu]

It’s not happening. Alcatraz is a mess. All that salt spray corrodes everything. And it’s a pain to build on. It would take years to get it up to snuff again. He should talk to the DOGE boys, this plan is really inefficient.

[Fury]

Understand - things like Alcatraz, Canada as 51st state and Greenland are schtick. The ignorant and TDSr’s lap it up like milk.

But it is fun to read!

[1Old Pro]

The ignorant and TDSr’s lap it up like milk.

Yep, they sure are a funny bunch of idiots.

[dfwgator]

And it gets people to start thinking “outside the box”.

[Red Badger]

I am of the mind that this is just a troll of the Left to watch their heads unravel.

And to put fear into the hearts of the criminals so that they will self deport asap...............

[Red Badger]

$150k...............

[TangoLimaSierra]

Sounds more like Ebonics, which is southern plantation speech, such as prolly.

It is someone saying "Well" then quickly closing their mouth in resignation as if there is no more to be said.

[Political Junkie Too]

And now we have like 3.5 seconds before a judge overturns this decision.

I was going to say, the biggest problem is letting the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals having dominion over it.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

If President Trump wants an inhospitable maximum-security low-privilege prison for the worst of the worst, he should build a Klingon Rura Penthe deep in the heart of Alaska and send all the equatorial gang-bangers there.

-PJ

[Red Badger]

Greenland is nice.....................

[shotgun]

Some Federal judge will side with the indians this time and grant back to them.

[Paddyboy]

The Aleutian Islands..remote and cold

[Ciaphas Cain]

Actual children's book (first in a series of four):

[Political Junkie Too]

If it were ours...

-PJ

[sphinx]

Rebuild Alcatrez? Heck no. It is a significant historical site: a fort, then a military prison, then a maximum security prison with a quite colorful history. It was already a hopelessly outdated and seriously deteriorated site when the Army turned it over to the federal Bureau of Prisons, which is why it was always a notorious hellhole when the worst of the worst were imprisoned there.

There is no shortage of better places to put prisons. Alcatraz should remain a park. And it will.

I am opposed to touching historical parks, period. There is plenty of federal land that could usefully reexamined, but most of it is managed by BLM and, should in theory be open for farming, ranching, timbering, mining, etc. The NPS owns the huge national parks out west, but the historical sites are generally pretty small, with the Civil War battlefields being the largest. Leave ‘em alone.