Cost to maintain grounds
Because they were distributing some horrible ppunishments. Damn near torturing inmates
Prison is falling apart. If you look out on it, ruins are becoming habitats for flowers
Costs too much money to maintain.
Because now America's prison system is private, owned by large companies to use the prisoners for cheap labor. Having a prison on an island meant you couldn't use the prisoners for labor in a cost effective method. Watch the documentary "13th", on Netflix.
Corrosion from saltwater spray as well as the age of the buildings themselves compromised the ability of Alcatraz to secure those who were incarcerated there and a decision was made to close it in 1963.
The city became too flaming liberal for prison guards & wardens to do their jobs.
It cost way too much to run it.
The answer is to execute those this dangerous. No whining, no sadness. Just a bullet through the brain and I will pay for the bullet.
It was to expensive to run so now it's a tourist attraction.
good question
Cost money to transport water to the island
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I say we upgrade every thing in that prison make it a modernized prison then it for sure won't be able to have any escapests and open it back up sounds easy but harder then I think
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