[DIRTYSECRET]

Too expensive. Like Guantanamo it’s more symbolism. Once the illegals are gone it becomes obsolete.

[Macoozie]

Kidnapping?

Comfortably retired in Florida.
Wonder what his victim’s family thinks of this?

[stanne]

Why do I want to know what this loser thinks…about anything.

[for-q-clinton]

LMAO. Now the felon is a cost specialist in prisons.

Hopkins agrees. "It would be so expensive," he said.

[LeonardFMason]

Trump at his best. Get the media to cover the point about law and order by suggesting something and then at the end of suggesting it say “We can do it or we can’t. Maybe a good idea. Maybe not.”

[Thank You Rush]

“”He don’t really want to open that place,” Hopkins said, adding that Trump was trying to “get a point across to the public” about punishing criminals and those who enter the US illegally.””

93 years old and still has a working brain...good for him!

[Yardstick]

I’m 50/50 on whether Trump is serious or just laser pointing the media to make a point about law and order.

[Carry_Okie]

The concrete to make the prison used seawater. It's decomposing and the steel reinforcement with it. The whole thing would have to be removed and rebuilt.

As to being a "remote island" it's inside San Francisco, only a mile from the Marina.

[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

[Rappini]

I don’t think DJT is really going to reopen Alcatraz, they shut it down because it was too expensive to operate in the first place. To get anything there and back costs money, let alone refurbishing the Rock. We could just use Gitmo or build a new one.

[Bon of Babble]

Alcatraz was closed b/c it was prohibitively expensive to operate. We were told on a tour that everything had to be hauled over by boat, including water.

More money is being made as a tourist attraction - we tried to get tickets last summer when we were there and all of the tours were sold out. And, they’re not cheap.

Better are remote places like Pelican Bay in a very desolate part of California along the coast. There is nothing there - it was built there to prevent the inmates families from settling in the area.

[wardamneagle]

Whatever the ROM cost is to get it operational add 100% difficulty factor because of access to the island……

[x]

I want to know what the two who escaped and went to Brazil think.

[NewJerseyJoe]

DOGE has been finding billions of dollars worth of unused, government-owned properties — would be quicker, cheaper, and more accessible to convert one or more of those into prisons.

[italianquaker]

Who cares what this convict says

[dragnet2]

We can’t rebuild Alcatraz because it would just cost too much money. Yet the United States is able to rebuild entire countries of those who hate us.

[dfwgator]

I wonder what "Vicky" would think?

[UnwashedPeasant]

All high-security prisons are expensive, and Trump is a master of building things far cheaper than predicted by “experts.”

”avid Trump supporter”

This prisoner’s conversion is evidence that Alcatraz works for reforming hardened criminals.

[Mozzafiato]

"Back then, the sewage system went into the ocean," he added. "They'd have to come up with another way of handling that."

Does this guy think there are no restrooms on the island today with the thousands of tourists that visit? There has been an underwater pipeline that pumps the sewage to the mainland for treatment for decades from Alcatraz.

[ConservativeMind]

He is an “avid Trump supporter!”