ALCATRAZ: President Donald Trump’s stated intention to once again hold seasoned criminals at the infamous former federal prison elicited conflicting responses from visitors to the facility on Monday.
While some of the tourists were open to the idea others thought it was absurd at worst and impracticable at best.
While traveling through the American West with his wife Clair from their homeland of Lincolnshire England Chris Smith remarked The man is a moron.
Almost everyone interviewed including tourists from Brazil Germany the United Kingdom Argentina France the Netherlands Taiwan and Canada concurred that restoring the historic facility—which was constructed between 1909 and 1911 on a 22-acre island in San Francisco Bay—would be extremely costly.
It was also evident that many people would overlook the well-liked attraction which brings in up to 1.6 million visitors annually and brings in about $60 million for the National Park Service The historic prison was packed with visitors anxious to learn about its turbulent past on a glittering day that contrasted with The Rock’s reputation for being chilly and wet.
A place to keep ‘the worst of the worst.
Should the now-profitable park and museum be sacrificed to bring it back?
Rob and Kari Kraemer who identify as conservative and live in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota said they would be receptive to the proposal.
“The worst of the worst according to Rob Kraemer are among the incorrigible criminals in the United States, and in order to safeguard others, you need a home for them This could be a chance to address that issue.
Due in significant part to its remote location which rendered it roughly three times more expensive to operate than any other federal jail the Alcatraz prison was closed in 1963 and reopened as a park ten years later.
Technological developments according to Rob Kraemer might lessen that problem He and Kari also indicated that construction and jail occupations could replace tourism jobs lost during the changeover.
It would need to be inspected and assessed he stated It seems like a good concept After completing the cost analysis make your findings.
There is plenty of space for additional prison construction.
Taiwanese college student Emily Lin who is studying in San Diego observed that Alcatraz which is encircled by icy waters and powerful currents is renowned for being challenging to escape from Five men who tried to escape were never located and are thought to have drowned according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons although no one has officially succeeded in doing so in its 29 years of operation.
Lin 28 stated Yes they should open it (as a prison) if there isn’t a better spot The jail’s function is to house the criminals It isn’t intended for tourists They can introduce the jail’s history and build another museum.
The British Smith couple was perplexed by the choice of location pointing out that the Alcatraz buildings are dilapidated and unfit to house even the dregs of society as Trump put it in his social media post on Sunday Trump declared that federal officials will be instructed to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ.
All supplies and equipment must be brought in by boat because the island, which is located 1½ miles north of San Francisco, lacks running water a sewer system and electrical service.
Chris Smith remarked There must be a lot of other locations to construct more prisons with this much land in America.
“He can’t mean that seriously.
Bruno Tavares in town from Brazil lived through the presidency of a far-right leader in Jair Bolsonaro who like Trump contested his election defeat throwing his nation into turmoil.
Tavares considers himself a political moderate and he finds Trump’s Alcatraz plan not so much far right as far out there.
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