Alcatraz 2.0: Fmr. FBI agent floats 'perfect' new prison site that would scare even most hardened criminals

A erstwhile FBI cause floated an alternate determination for President Donald Trump's revamped Alcatraz prison, which helium thinks would service arsenic a deterrence for adjacent the worst criminals.

Trump called for the reopening of the notorious situation successful a Truth Social station connected Sunday evening. 

"REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!" Trump wrote. "For excessively long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repetition Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who volition ne'er lend thing different than Misery and Suffering."

Trump directed respective agencies, including the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Homeland Security, to make plans to reopen a "substantially enlarged and rebuilt" Alcatraz situation that would "house America’s astir ruthless and convulsive Offenders." He said the reopening of Alcatraz "will service arsenic a awesome of Law, Order, and JUSTICE."

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President Donald Trump wants to revamp and reopen Alcatraz Island. (Brandon Sloter/Getty Images)

Former FBI peculiar cause Jonathan Gilliam told Fox News Digital helium has an adjacent amended thought connected wherever to physique a situation that would service arsenic a deterrence for criminals.

"If you privation to physique a prison, hide astir Alcatraz," Gilliam said, pitching San Clemente Island successful California arsenic a imaginable determination for the prison. 

San Clemente Island is chiefly utilized by the U.S. Navy for respective purposes, including grooming to go a Navy SEAL. The land is lone accessible by vessel and air, rendering it hard to scope for astir people.

Gilliam said San Clemente Island is well-suited to big a situation akin to Alcatraz due to the fact that of its size and region from California's coast, arsenic it's astir 80 miles from San Diego.

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Shortly aft takeoff successful a Navy-chartered commuter plane, Jan K. Larson, manager of earthy resources, looks retired connected San Clemente Island. (Photo by Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

"That is simply a cleanable determination that's adjacent capable and you could physique a situation retired determination for aforesaid oregon little magnitude of money," Gilliam said. "Just the isolation of it would nonstop daze factors done the minds of a batch of these people. You would not privation to spell determination due to the fact that there's thing there."

The erstwhile FBI peculiar cause said there's an unwritten regularisation that "nobody tin perceive you shriek retired there."

Gilliam said helium thinks Trump's program to reopen Alcatraz volition nonstop a connection to criminals.

"I deliberation the cardinal to Alcatraz was ever that it stood alone, you couldn't flight it and the astir hardened criminals were there. So it was a scary spot to be," helium said. "And truthful I deliberation arsenic agelong arsenic that stays with it, past it'll service arsenic a deterrent, I would think."

In his societal media post, Trump said lone the astir superior criminals would beryllium placed successful a revamped Alcatraz.

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U.S. President Donald Trump walks toward members of the media anterior to answering questions earlier boarding Marine One connected the South Lawn of the White House connected April 29, 2025 successful Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

"When we were a much superior Nation, successful times past, we did not hesitate to fastener up the astir unsafe criminals, and support them acold distant from anyone they could harm," Trump added. "No longer volition we tolerate these Serial Offenders who dispersed filth, bloodshed, and mayhem connected our streets."

Alcatraz was opened successful 1934, but closed 29 years aboriginal successful 1963. It's present operated by the National Park Service, which operates tours of the infamous prison.

Fox News Digital's Greg Wehner contributed to this report.