i heard that thay are going or might reopen ALCATRAZ is this true?? if so where and when? will it be the same?or better.if you ask me thay should reopen alcatraz .thanks. john p.
2007-01-09 18:43:24 · 9 answers · asked by john p 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
who all knows about the prison alcatraz? i was born in 73 and i know wabout alcatraz.pleas some one .RSVP.
THANK YOU
2007-01-09 18:48:57 · update #1
Although it would be a very benificial place to send some criminals, I doubt it. They are making too much money off it to spend any to re-do the whole thing. But wouldn't it be sweet if there was a prison out there like on the movie Face Off with John Travolta and Nicholas Cage??
And Smurfette: No, we do NOT spend eough on taxes on criminals already. Have you seen how little time sex offenders actually spend in prison?? Around three to five years! I have even seen murderers get off with only a few years. Yes, prisons are getting over crowded, but we need to fix a few of the kinks
2007-01-09 18:55:39 · answer #1 · answered by firey_aries_gurl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't work to make Alcatraz back into a prison. San Francisco has grown up far too much. It would be a nightmare trying to keep the place secure anymore. There is no shortage of undesirable real estate for them to build new prisons on in California.
2007-01-09 18:52:19 · answer #2 · answered by Carole 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are worried about the expanding prison population, retrofitting a prison built in the 1800s would be about a zillion times more expensive than just building new ones.
Or better yet, finding out better ways to deal with people you don't like than warehousing them.
Or go the other way, and just do like the Chinese do now and Hitler did then, and American prisons do on a smaller scale. Slave labor. Yep. If you can't find enough people who actually ARE criminals, then pass minimum sentencing laws, or probation-for-life schemes, to keep a steady stream of people who are supposed to turn out high quality products at a pay of 2 dollars a day. Big Business, baby!
As for WHERE Alcatraz would be opened,, hey you didn't think very clearly before asking this question did you?
2007-01-09 18:56:51 · answer #3 · answered by brotherjonah 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Alcatraz is open, but as a tourist attraction and not an operational prison. They are not going to build an identical prison in layout and name in another location.
2007-01-10 00:44:45 · answer #4 · answered by Protagonist 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be cost prohibitive to renovate Alcatraz into a working prison again. It can make more money as a tourist attraction.
2007-01-09 22:41:04 · answer #5 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no way to ever make Alcatraz habitible for humans again to live in the walls are crumbling away due to the salt water.
2007-01-10 05:56:27 · answer #6 · answered by simplydelicious 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just a rumor. It would require millions of dollars to make it habitable. It's quite a big tourist attraction right now, drawing more than a million visitors a year.
2007-01-09 18:49:07 · answer #7 · answered by Andi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are numerous people who would make fun of the possibility of altering their destinies. This is due to the fact that it thinks that no one gets more that what is put in his destiny.
2016-05-18 18:07:28 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't people spend enough taxes on criminals?
2007-01-09 18:48:25 · answer #9 · answered by ṡ๓υгƒєtt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋