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“Hopkins left Alcatraz five years before it closed down for good. He had been transferred to a prison in Springfield, Missouri and given psychiatric medication that improved his behaviour and helped him heal psychological issues, he said.
But the avid Trump supporter said he does not believe the president’s proposal is serious.
“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.
Hopkins was released in 1963, working first at a truck stop before taking on other jobs. He went back to his home state of Florida”