Federal Bureau of Prisons has a $3 billion repair backlog. Now it’s expected to reopen Alcatraz too

Eleven of the deaths of prisoners in less than two months. More than 4000 vacant employees. 3 billion dollars in accumulation.

Now, amazing guidance by President Donald Trump from the Federal Prison Office, which is suffering from crises to “rebuilding and opening the Catrazers!” – Poor imprisonment on an island in the Gulf of San Francisco, which lasts prisoners more than 60 years ago.

Although the prison office is struggling through short employment, chronic violence and deteriorating infrastructure in its current facilities, Trump depends on the agency to achieve its vision to restart the unavoidable prison in movies and pop culture as “The Rock”.

Trump announced on a social media on Sunday that “a large extension and its rebuilding” will include ruthless and violent Alcatraz. ” “It will be a symbol of law, order and justice,” he wrote about the social truth.

William K. said. Marshall III, director of the recently appointed Prison Office, that the agency “will follow up strongly all ways to support and implement the president’s agenda” and that he ordered “an immediate evaluation to determine our needs and the following steps.”

“Usp Alcatraz has a rich history. We look forward to restoring this strong symbol of law, order and justice,” Marshall said in a statement. “We will actively work with law enforcement and other federal partners to restore this very important task.”

Alcatraz was once perfect

Alcatraz, an island of 22 acres (8.9 hectares) with views of the Golden Gate and San Francisco Skyline Bridge, one day the crown jewel of the Federal prisoner system and the homeland of some of the most famous criminals in the country, including Al Capone and George gangs “Kelly”.

However, the costs of reform and high supply forced the Ministry of Justice to close the prison in 1963, just 29 years after its opening, and the prison office has long replaced the Catrazing with modern translation, including the utmost imprisonment in Florence, Colorado.

The previous prison and perhaps the future is now a famous tourist attraction and a national historical teacher. It is controlled by the National Park Service as part of the Golden Gate National Entertainment, which means that the prison office can be in tightening a war between agencies if it tries to control the island.

Trump’s direction is another challenge to the prison office because it is struggling to fix the ongoing problems while responding to the president’s priorities to prison and detention of migrants. The agency’s mission, as it was redefined under Trump, includes taking thousands of immigration detainees under an agreement with the Ministry of Internal Security.

Problems in the prison office exceed departments and facilities.

A continuous investigation at the Associated Press has revealed deep and unpaid defects in the prison office over the past few years, including widespread criminal activity by employees, dozens of escape, free flow of guns, drugs and other smuggled, and severe explosions that hindered the responses to emergency situations.

Last year, then President Joe Biden signed the law overseeing the agency. The largest agency in the Ministry of Justice remains, with more than 30,000 employees, 155,000 prisoners and an annual budget of about $ 8 billion, but Trump cost management measures have canceled some rewards that were credited with maintaining and attracting new employees.

This has led to long transformations in the additional time for some workers and the continued use of a policy known as the reinforcement, where the prisoners of prisons, chefs, teachers and other workers are pressed in the duty to guard the prisoners.

The infrastructure also corresponds to. The prison office official told congress in a hearing in February that more than 4000 beds within the system – equivalent to at least two complete prisons – are not used due to dangerous conditions such as leakage or failure of surfaces, mold, asbestos or bullets.

The deaths were afflicted with the federal prisons system

Since mid -March, 11 federal prisoners have died. Among them are David Knizvic, a 37 -year -old businessman who was dead on April 28 in a suspect in a federal prison in Miami. He was waiting for the trial on charges of kidnapping and killing his separate wife in Spain.

On April 24, the inmate Ramadan Jabir was killed in a battle in the federal prison in Bullock, Louisiana, where he was serving a prison sentence for approximately 11 years for his conviction for armed theft.

Since Trump was ordering the reopening of Alkatraz on Sunday, the reform officers in the Miami prison himself were fighting to reduce the spread of tuberculosis and Covid-19, and to isolate the prisoners after they tested positively. Last month, immigration detainees in the facility slipped by spraying a fire and immersed a holding cell during a long eating process.

Meanwhile, the federal reform establishment sat about 30 miles (50 km) east alcatraz, with prison office, from prisoners in the wake of sexual assault by employees, including prisons.

In December, the agency made the closure of permanent and volatile prisoners’ camps throughout the country to face “great challenges, including decisive employees, dilapidated infrastructure and limited budget resources.”

While Trump descends from Alcatraz as a hippopotamus for the dear federal prison system, other facilities stand as a reminder to its recent problems.

It includes the federal prison in Manhattan, which is still in lethargy after the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein there in 2019 revealed deep defects in its operations, and the turbulent federal lock in Brooklyn, where the accusation was brought to 23 prisoners in recent months through the crimes of the street.

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

2025-05-06 11:00:00