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Dartmoor inmate held prison officer hostage at knifepoint for three hours
A man who "genuinely believed" he was going to be murdered in prison and it be made to look like a suicide attempt took a ...
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Alcatraz as a Prison? Tourists Say Trump Is on His Own Island.
Can you believe that President Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison? The morning tour ... have roofs or complete walls. The cells have broken toilets, if they have any ...
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Alcatraz prison closed because it was too expensive to run. Now Trump wants to use it again
Some of the old prison cells at Alcatraz are seen in a photo taken on Monday. (Jed Jacobsohn/The Associated Press) Eventually, Karpis was paroled and then deported to Canada in 1969. He later ...
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How Alcatraz became America's most notorious prison
President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California ... and visitors can see the cells where prisoners were held.In 1969, a group of Native ...
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Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison
The prison was closed in 1963, and Alcatraz Island is currently operated as a tourist site. The order comes as Trump has been clashing with the courts as he tries to send accused gang members to a ...