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This is in the news this morning:
The consensus among experts is that it would cost so much to convert Alcatraz back to a prison that it doesn’t make sense to do this despite Trump’s bellicose bloviating. He had his Big Beautiful Bill. Now he can have a “Make America Beautiful From Sea To Shining Sea Bill” by opening a Pacific Ocean Alcatraz prison.
There is a cost effective way to accomplish this.
“Escape from New York” is a pretty good movie. I’ve watched it a couple of times.
It stars Kurt Russell as imprisaoned criminal Snake Plissken (great name) who is offered a chance to be set free if he can rescue the president who has crash landed in an Air Force One escape pod on Manhattan Island. Here’s his fictional bio.
In the movie, Manhattan Island had been converted to a prison for the most dangerous criminals. Once there the inmates are left to fend for themselves without guards. Food and water are dropped in from helicopters. Escape from the island prison is prevented by heavy law enforcement patrols with orders to shoot anyone who attempts to get off the island since it would otherwise be easy to escape. Manhattan is hardly a perilous swim from the mainland like Alcatraz.
“Escape” is a riveting and totally implausible yarn. Russell is perfect in the role of the one eyed Snake Plissken:
Alcatraz Island is approximately 22 acres in size. It is about 1.25 miles offshore from San Francisco in San Francisco Bay. I live in a continuing care retirement community which is on a little more than 22 acres and I used to live on a cranberry bog that size which we owned. It was my backyard, so I have a sense for how big this is. If you can’t conceptualize how large an area this is, you’ll have to take my word for it that this would be large enough to accommodate far more than the 700 some prisoners currently held at Alligator Alcatraz as long as nobody cared about creature comforts.
“At any given time, Alcatraz held around 330 prisoners, with each inmate given their own cell - an unusual luxury compared to the overcrowded conditions of most American prisons at the time.” Reference with photos.
Ironically, the original Alcatraz wasn’t the worst prison to be incarcerated in.
Alcatraz already has buildings, albeit in lousy condition needing very expensive repairs to make them decent to live in. There is also an open section where tents could be set up like those in Alligator Alcatraz.
I can see several thousand inmates being held there in a cost effective way as long as nobody cared about their establishing a brutal kill or be killed hierarchy where inmates ran the prison themselves like they did in “Escape from New York.”
Trump and his heartless henchmen (and henchwomen) not only don’t care about the conditions their prisoners are held in, and brush off humanitarian concerns, they seem to revel in being able to inflict pain upon them.
There you have it, Trump. All for free from me. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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