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Where Is Alligator Alcatraz? Size, Facilities And Why Are Environmentalists Opposing Construction Of ICE Detention Centre?

Alligator Alcatraz, a massive ICE detention centre in Florida's Everglades, sparks fierce opposition over environmental harm and Indigenous land rights.

International Business Times UK

Is ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention centre funded by Florida hurricane money?

Government will allocate some FEMA funds to the facility, but will not use disaster relief money.

Al Jazeera

Florida building ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for undocumented migrants in the Everglades that will cost $450m per year to run

Facility under construction on former airfield and will cost $450m per year to run

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Donald Trump’s Escape to Alcatraz

Will the old prison be reborn as America’s Devil’s Island or as a theme park for the carceral state?

Capital & Main

Where Did Alcatraz's Most Notorious Inmates End Up After the Infamous Prison Shut Its Doors in 1963?

Alcatraz shut in 1963, with its most feared inmates moved to prisons across the US. Though the island fell silent, its dark legacy still grips the world.

International Business Times UK

Tourists roam Alcatraz ruins as Trump floats prison comeback

US President Donald Trump has said he would like to see Alcatraz Island return to its former role as a high-security prison, more than 60 years after it closed.

Euronews

Not just Alcatraz: the notorious US prisons Trump is already reopening

Amid outrage over ‘far-fetched’ plans to revive Alcatraz, Trump is pushing to expand Ice detention to other closed lockups marked by scandals

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The federal Bureau of Prisons has lots of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is now one of them

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months

The Independent UK

Trump plans to jumpstart one of the nation’s worst prisons. Officials may have to boot threatened seabirds to do it

The tourist destination is home to thousands of seabirds that rely on the island to nest and raise their families

The Independent UK

Trump took Alcatraz inspo from Hollywood

The president cited "the movies" when asked about his plan to reopen the notorious prison in San Francisco Bay

Salon

Pam Bondi Declares Housing Detained Migrants in Alcatraz Would Be 'Cost Saving' Despite Prison Being Shut Down Over Pricey Upkeep

The Trump administration is falling in line to the president's desire to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz to house undocumented Americans despite the prison's costly upkeep.

Latin Times

Republican Strategist Notes 'Escape From Alcatraz' Was on TV This Weekend as Trump Declares He Was 'Supposed to Be a Movie Maker'

President Donald Trump's directives to reopen Alcatraz prison came after a weekend where the film "Escape from Alcatraz" was being shown on TV.

International Business Times

Alcatraz, Sith lords and movie tariffs: Trump’s ravings get louder as his approval rating goes lower

ANALYSIS: Between posting about Star Wars, suggesting reopening Alcatraz and imposing tariffs on movies, the president is looking increasingly desperate, writes Eric Garcia

The Independent UK

Reopening Alcatraz Is an Expensive, Unnecessary Pipe Dream

The Bureau of Prisons is struggling to staff the prisons it currently operates. Reopening Alcatraz would be unrealistic and redundant.

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The Independent UK

Reopening the Rock: Trump’s bold plan for Alcatraz

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The Independent UK

Everything you need to know about Trump’s bizarre plan to reopen Alcatraz

Trump has directed officials to reopen a ‘substantially enlarged and rebuilt’ prison on Alcatraz Island - but is it really viable?

The Guardian - US

Trump orders reopening of Alcatraz prison for ‘most ruthless offenders’

Plan to expand and reuse long-shuttered penitentiary off San Francisco described as ‘not serious’ by Nancy Pelosi

Reason

Trump's War on Foreign Films

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The Independent UK

Trump makes claims about judges as he explains Alcatraz reopening order

Donald Trump slammed what he called the leniency of “radical judges,” as he vowed to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the infamous island prison near San Francisco.

Euronews

Trump says he wants to reopen and expand infamous Alcatraz prison

The notorious jail on a hard-to-reach island off San Francisco has been closed for more than 60 years.

Al Jazeera

Trump orders rebuilding and reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison in US

Now an important tourist site, the California federal penitentiary has been shut for more than six decades.

International Business Times

Trump Orders Alcatraz Prison Re-opening, X Users Blast 'Psychotic Emperor Phase'

President Trump on Sunday ordered the Bureau of Prisons to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz, which has been closed since the 1960s, but many X users are against the infamous prison's revival.

International Business Times

Trump Orders Rebuilding And Reopening Of Defunct US Prison Alcatraz

US President Donald Trump said Sunday he had directed officials to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz prison, the notorious federal jail based on a small island in California that closed six decades ago.

Evening Standard

Donald Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison

US President says facility, which once held famed gangster Al Capone, will 'house America's most ruthless and violent offenders’

The Independent UK

Trump orders reopening and expansion of notorious Alcatraz prison

The former federal penitentiary is located on a remote San Francisco island and closed in 1963

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