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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

Trump announced Alcatraz reopening just hours after ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ aired on a South Florida PBS station

The 1979 film starring Clint Eastwood about the daring 1962 escape attempt aired on the local PBS channel just six hours before the president made his demand that the prison be reopened

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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Another Country Embraces El Salvador's Hardline Approach To Crime With New Mega-Prison

Costa Rica plans to expand its maximum-security capacity from 80 to 1,000 inmates and begin construction of a $35 million prison inspired by El Salvador's model.

Latin Times

Trump meets with American ballerina who was held in Russian prison for 15 months

Ksenia Karelina was arrested in Russia last year after she donated to a charity that sends aid to Ukraine

The Independent UK

How Alcatraz became America's most notorious prison

President Donald Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again

The Independent UK

Arizona Mom Who Used Meat Cleaver to Send Two Young Kids to Be 'With Her Parents' Learns Her Fate

An Arizona mother was sentenced to life in prison after brutally murdering her two young children with a meat cleaver "designed to cut the bones of animals."

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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 Independent UK

NY prison guard pleads guilty to manslaughter for beating inmate to death while handcuffed in attack caught on body cam

Christopher Walrath is one of six prison guards charged in the death of inmate Robert Brooks.

The Independent UK

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

The Guardian - US

Russian journalist who escaped Putin’s reach reappears in Paris after daring journey

Barabash, 63, vehemently condemned on Monday the lack of freedoms in Russia while detailing her escape

The Independent UK

Should Sharing Information About Israeli Businesses Get You 20 Years in Prison?

The IGO Anti-Boycott Act would dramatically expand U.S. anti-boycott laws. The House quietly postponed a vote after running into unexpected Republican opposition.

Reason

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.

The Independent UK

Will Pahalgam attack prolong detention of Kashmiri political prisoners?

Hopes that last year’s vote would lead to their release crushed since April 22 killings and crackdown by Indian forces.

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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.

The Independent UK

Trump administration will pay immigrants in U.S. illegally $1,000 to self-deport

‘Self-deportation is the best, safest, and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest,’ Homeland Security secretary says

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.

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The Independent UK

Ex-prison officer who was stabbed by inmate calls for mandatory protective gear

Claire Lewis was attacked by an inmate in 2010.

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

Iraq's justice minister says prisons are at double their capacity as amnesty law takes effect

As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an interview

The Independent UK

Cambodian court convicts prominent politician of incitement in latest legal move to stifle opponents

A Cambodian court has convicted a prominent opposition politician of incitement and sentenced him to four years in prison, in the latest legal move to stifle criticism of the government of Prime Minister Hun Manet

The Independent UK

Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that has been closed for more than 60 years

The Independent UK

5 Virginia prison guards are injured by inmates accused of being MS-13 members

Prison officials in Virginia say five guards have been injured in an attack by inmates who are MS-13 gang members

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