Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison | AP News
I thought the island was in the middle of the ocean.
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Catch up quick: Alcatraz, a 22-acre island in the San Francisco Bay, operated as a federal penitentiary for 29 years but closed in 1963 after the U.S. government determined that it’d cost more to maintain it than to build a new prison.
- The aging utility systems, lack of sewage treatment and decaying concrete all contributed to the decision to shut it down, according to Alcatraz historian John Martini. It was “costing three times as much to keep a man on that island as a mainland prison,” he told Axios.
