“President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island that has been closed for more than 60 years,” the AP reports.
“The prison — infamously inescapable due to the strong ocean currents and cold Pacific waters that surround it — was known as the ‘The Rock’ and housed some of the nation’s most notorious criminals, including gangster Al Capone and George ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly.”
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