The article discusses the mixed reactions from tourists on Alcatraz Island following President Trump's announcement to potentially reopen the historic prison. Visitors, such as Beverly Klir, expressed confusion about the practicality of rebuilding Alcatraz for housing violent offenders, suggesting that other facilities, like Guantanamo Bay, would be more suitable. Children visiting the island noted the prisonâs deteriorating condition, emphasizing the impracticality of such a proposal. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Prisons responded swiftly, indicating their readiness to support the President's agenda.
But on Monday, a day after President Trump posted on social media that he wants to reopen the nearly century-old prison as a "substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America's most ruthless and violent Offenders," many tourists were imagining a very different role: what it would be like to be the construction manager who might actually have to figure out how to make that happen.
I'm all for what [Trump] is doing, but this doesn't make sense," said Beverly Klir, 63, an ardent Trump supporter who was visiting from Chicago. "I believe Gitmo [the prison at Guantanamo Bay] may be better. That's where they all belong. They don't belong here.
"Most of Alcatraz is broken down and stuff," she said.
The Bureau of Prisons will vigorously pursue all avenues to support and implement the President's agenda," said BOP Director William K. Marshall III.
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