The President Donald Trump He announced on Sunday his intention to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, the infamous former prison of the island of the Bay of San Francisco, as a penitentiary installation of maximum security in operation for the “most ruthless and violent criminals in America.”
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Trump described the movement as a symbol of “law, order and justice” in a publication in Truth Social and suggested that the prison would expand and significantly modernize to accommodate the most dangerous criminals.
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Alcatraz worked as a federal prison between 1934 and 1963 and housed notorious criminals like To the Capone y George “Machine Gun” Kelly. The prison closed due to high operational costs, the deterioration of infrastructure and logistics challenges.
Everything, from food to fuel and water, had to be transported by boat, which caused its maintenance to be three times more expensive than that of other federal prisons.
John Martiniexpert in the history of Alcatraz who worked as rangers on the island, told San Francisco Chronicle that it would be impossible to reopen the prison because the building is “totally inoperable”, without water, sanitation, and only with electricity in certain parts.
“If the discussion is to rebuild the prison building to house people, I don’t think it is feasible,” Martini said. “It would have to be demolished and rebuilt.”
What else?
Reoper Alcatraz as a federal prison would require an important investment of the federal government, with initial costs that would probably exceed the hundreds of millions of dollars and annual expenses in progress that would far exceed those of a typical prison in the continent.
For the reconstruction of Alcatraz, large -scale construction companies and infrastructure consultancy such as AECOM (NYSE:ACM) y Fluor Corp. (NYSE: FLR), which specialize in complex restoration projects and government infrastructure.
The federal government could also call prison companies such as Geo Group Inc. (Nyse: geo) y CoreCivic, Inc. (NYSE: CWX) to operate the location once the restoration is completed.
A reconstructed Alcatraz prison would also need security, communications and surveillance solutions of specialized providers in public and correctional security facilities such as Axon Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ:AXON) y Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI).
The details of the Alcatraz reopening plan are not clear, including the proposed costs or a calendar for the expansion and opening of the installation. However, the Prison Office, the Department of Justice, the FBI and the United States National Security Department are expected to work on the project.
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