Alcatraz Isand, California – The exhibitions on the island of Alcatraz, the infamous federal prison that decades ago was closed and
But on Monday, a day after President Trump published on social networks that horses will reopen the prison of almost centenarians as a “substantially enlarged and rebuilt substance alcatraz, for the house of the house of the United States that-we-we The terrious of Diielts.
“I’m for what [Trump] He is doing, but this makes no sense, “said Beverly Klir, 63, a burning Trump supporter who was visiting from Chicago.” I think Gitmo [the prison at Guantanamo Bay] It can be better. That’s where everyone belongs. They do not belong here. “
She and her husband were standing in the midst of a rossed flower riot in the steep steep of the island, looking towards the Golden Gate bridge as a couple of geese from Canada and three blurred hairdressers. Behind them, the prison was raised, its facade with a threatened strength -shaped, but also a testimony of age and climate, with crumbled stucco, deteriorated masonry and combining joints.
Above the island, outside the three -story cell home, where some of the most incorrigible prisoners of the nations were locked in primitive cells, Melody García, 10, who visited Concord’s family, seemed equally. “Most of Alcatraz broken down and those things,” he said.
Even so, a few hours after Trump’s pronouncement, the Prison Office issued a statement saying that I was already at work.
“The Prison Office will strongly seek all the ways to support and implement the president’s agenda,” said Office director William K. Marshall III. “I have ordered an immediate evaluation to determine our needs and the next steps. USP Alcatraz has a rich history. We hope to restore this powerful symbol of law, order and justice.”
Meanwhile, many California officials responded with a variety of ridicule and concern. A spokesman for Governor Gavin Newsom dismissed the pronouncement as a ploy designed to distract voters from Trump’s actions as president. State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) called him “deranged.” But well, he also quoted that “when Donald Trump says something, he means,” and speculated that Trump may want to “open a gulag here in the United States”
The presence of the US Government in Alcatraz rose in the 1850s, with the construction of a strong erruption with cannons to defend San Francisco de los ships hostile.
Shortly after, US officials also use a military prison. Duration The Civil War, the crew of a Confederate ship, along with soldiers of the Union convicted of violation, murder, dropout and other crimes, were imprisoned there. The United States Army also locked the Indians Hope, Apache and Modoc there and, later, conscientious objectors for World War I.
In 1934, Alcatraz opened as an official federal prison for those who had made attempts to escape from other federal prisons, or otherwise they behaved badly. Among his notable inmates were to Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly.
Known as “The Rock”, the prison, which had capacity for 336 men, won a place in popular culture as an island or remote despair. “Everyone wants to be an individual,” said former companion James Quillen, who served 10 years there, from 1942 to 1952. “You want to be human. And you are in ‘The Rock.” “
In addition to being formidable, the prison was terribly expensive to maintain and operate. So exensive, in fact, that in 1963, then Aty. Gene. Robert F. Kennedy ordered him closed.
John Martini, a Alcatraz historian, said the prison was closed in part because it was built with defective construction methods and was in decline, and “it would be a money well to take it to the standards … that it was easier to build a new penitentiary.”
Six years later, the island acquired an outstanding place in the history of the Native Americans when a group of American native activists landed on the island, Decy was taking it on behalf of “Indians of all tribes.” The occupation lasted 19 months and helped awaken the nation to the concerns of indigenous Americans.
When the federal agents moved to eliminate the last occupants in 1971, the officials had plans to destroy everything. But in 1972, Congress created the Gate Gate National Recreation Area, and the island became one of San Francisco’s most beloved attractions. More than 1.4 million people visit each year, walking through the Danking cell blocks and receiving exhibitions on the occupation of the Native Americans.
Ask Alcatraz to go through, Trump said his restoration “would serve as a symbol of law, order and justice.”
But the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, a non -profit organization that helps preserve and support operations in Alcatraz, issued a statement on Monday by saying that the height of prison as a historical point and an educational destination already serves an important role.
“Alcatraz has not been a labor prison for more than 60 years,” said the organization in his statement. “Today, it is a powerful symbol: a national historical milestone
John Kostelnik, western regional vice president of the Council of Previous premises 33, said that the idea of reopening Alcatraz was not only an “irresponsible” use of federal money but also a weak to the prison guards, which is bass low.
“It simply seems very hypocritical to enter and said that they make the biennemer more efficient and pixed and all that,” Kostelnik said, using the acronym for Elon Musk’s cost reduction team, “and now he’s saying that they are saying that they say he says he says he says he says he says he is saying. ‘
In December, the Prison Office said it was closing its problematic federal prison in Dublin, California, about 30 miles east of San Francisco, as well as five fields of minimum security prisoners in Florida to Colorado states. The office said in a document obstructed by Associated Press that was closing the facilities to address “significant challenges, including a critical shortage of personnel, crumbled infrastructure and limited budgetary resources.”
The office of the mayor of San Francisco, Daniel Lurie, directed consultations about Alcatraz’s proposal at the service of National Parks, which did not promote a comment request.
Tourists wandering around the island on Monday seemed worried about two questions: how and why?
“He is not ready. In any way, form or forms ready,” said Daniel Mulvad, 24, who lives in San Francisco and was visiting guests from outside the city. He pointed out that the costs of renewing the structure would be astronomical and seemed foolish since, as a tourist attraction, Alcatraz seemed to be generating a large amount of income through the sale of tickets and goods.
“You would really have to wire again,” said Alyssa Sibley, 26, or Sacramento, while she was standing in the old bathroom, looking at raw and oxidized bath accessories.
Tumidi Valentin, 34, a French holiday psychologist in California, denounced him as a “terrible idea.” “Every day has new ideas,” Valentin said about Trump, most of them “to make a buzz” and get attention.
Kristin Nichols, 60, or Palm Springs, who was visiting the family, said that, as someone who is part of Chickasaw, the exhibitions on the American native occupation were very moved.
“The amount of money that would be needed to do this …” he said. “I would question the purpose.”
She added: “It is a historical place, and if they turn it again into a prison, it will marry the whole story.”
