No one is reopening the island of Alcatraz as a federal prison. Officials closed it in 1963, after 29 years of operation, because it was too expensive to operate: more than three times as expensive as any other federal prison. Since then, it has become one of the most popular sites of the National Park Service, ....
It feels rather as if Trump is throwing any strong words he can at the wall to distract from a series of news stories that are not going his way.
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