05 May 2025, 06:01
jeffeossoTrump want's to reopen the Rock
Why would one bother with Alcatraz?
Sure seems like a great use for some Trans-Pecos counties in West Texas -- Make the prison the safest place to be in the couple hundred sq/mile county -
plenty of sunshine for solar power !!
Stupid IDIOT makes stupid decisions!

05 May 2025, 10:41
TumbleweedOh, come on - he’s a ‘very stable genius’, he said so himself.

05 May 2025, 10:55
Scott KingI like the idea.
I've been there and lived locally. I say pour a bunch of money in an American institution and make some American criminals do some hard time.
I know someone who works at San Quintin teaching High School diploma. GED I think they call it. San Quintin is no longer max security but some kind of re covery or rejuvenation facility. Fine and neato. Alcatraz can be the latest Supermax. What's the acronym? FARAFO?
05 May 2025, 11:22
boom stickquote:
Originally posted by jeffeosso:
Why would one bother with Alcatraz?
Sure seems like a great use for some Trans-Pecos counties in West Texas -- Make the prison the safest place to be in the couple hundred sq/mile county -
plenty of sunshine for solar power !!
I say sell the island to Elon Musk for office space. Use the sales funds to convert a cargo ship into a prison and park it in shark infested waters. Use the prison labor to do the low importance manufacturing jobs from what we were importing from China.
Florida put its prisons in the middle of swamps.
Good planning.
05 May 2025, 18:38
LongDistanceOperatorquote:
Originally posted by Scott King:
I like the idea.
I've been there and lived locally. I say pour a bunch of money in an American institution and make some American criminals do some hard time.
I know someone who works at San Quintin teaching High School diploma. GED I think they call it. San Quintin is no longer max security but some kind of re covery or rejuvenation facility. Fine and neato. Alcatraz can be the latest Supermax. What's the acronym? FARAFO?
How much would that cost? It’s wildly impractical.
06 May 2025, 00:15
crbutlerIf the current supermax is adequately secure, I see no need to take a place (absent it being a prison) that billionaires would spend hundreds of millions of dollars to place a home on to make a prison.
We can make prisons secure. That costs money.
Is it worthwhile? That’s a public policy debate. In my mind you put a prison where it’s fiscally most reasonable. I don’t GAF where the inmates would rather be… it’s a prison.
El Salvador, Zim, Congo…some great places and super cheap