Lock "em Up... in Alcatraz?

[eddiememphis]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...az-2025-05-04/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/us/tr...on-history-hnk


U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco Bay to "house America?s most ruthless and violent Offenders."
"REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!" he posted on the Truth Social platform. "When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm."

For a guy that ran and won on cutting federal spending, this seems like an incredibly wasteful idea. Turning the National Park Service attraction back into an actual functioning prison is going to cost a lot more than expanding Supermax in Florence or even building a new prison someplace else.

The entire facility would likely need to be knocked down and rebuilt. That would include all the environmental impact studies in California is famous for. Just planning and permitting would likely take 5 to 10 years. Add to that union labor, material costs in the Bay Area, and legal challenges, and you're talking billions and probably multiple decades to see it through.

One of the reasons it was shut down was because of the expensive logistics of maintaining it. That can only have increased in the time since it closed.

Hopefully, this is just another goofball idea Trump tosses out there to make leftist's heads spin but with this guy, you never know.

He has no problem spending our money.

[Sawin]

Oh boy, Sounds more like a Biden idea…. He’s getting tired and his brain must be slipping in his old age.

[BushMasterBoy]

Tarriffs will mean an excess of shipping containers. So he builds a steel box prison on an island. War with cartels means more prisoners. 87,000 drug overdoses last year? Thats a lot of dead Americans. I'm sure the administration did the math on this issue. I'm going to retire to a sunny beach/swamp soon...

[Oscar77]

We've been thru this before.................. He just lets ideas flow man.............. just a constant stream of consciousness...........

[Sawin]

We've been thru this before.................. He just lets ideas flow man.............. just a constant stream of consciousness...........

Oh yeah that’s right! Stream of consciousness, man!

[JohnnyDrama]

We've been thru this before.................. He just lets ideas flow man.............. just a constant stream of consciousness...........

Wait until someone gets wind of his idea to raise the Titanic.

[eddiememphis]

Wait until someone gets wind of his idea to raise the Titanic.

We're going to raise the Titanic—bigger, better, and more beautiful than ever before. It’ll float again, folks. Just like our great American spirit. This is going to be the most incredible, most luxurious ship recovery in the history of mankind. Nobody raises ships like I do. It’s going to be a very classy salvage. Very elegant. Gold trim. The best people, Jim Cameron, Elon, Lil Marco, only the best people.

The Titanic went down under weak leadership. We're bringing it back under strong leadership—the strongest. We're going to make the Titanic great again!

[Sawin]

We're going to raise the Titanic—bigger, better, and more beautiful than ever before. It’ll float again, folks. Just like our great American spirit. This is going to be the most incredible, most luxurious ship recovery in the history of mankind. Nobody raises ships like I do. It’s going to be a very classy salvage. Very elegant. Gold trim. The best people, Jim Cameron, Elon, Lil Marco, only the best people.

The Titanic went down under weak leadership. We're bringing it back under strong leadership—the strongest. We're going to make the Titanic great again!

Absolutely perfect! Well done. I’m gonna save that snippet for my friend who does trump impressions.

[BPTactical]

Cost prohibitive

[def90]

Here we are trying to cut waste and someone thinks it might be a good idea to open a place that was rotten and at the end of it's lifespan when they closed it due to the fact that it required 3x the funds and resources to operate than any other prison and the buildings were basically junk.