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Trump: We're Making Alcatraz a Prison Again

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    15% ReliableLimited

  • Policy Leaning

    6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -17% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Trump argued the move would restore "Law, Order, and JUSTICE" and serve as a national symbol:
44% : In a post on Truth Social, Trump directed federal agencies -- including the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department, the FBI, and Homeland Security -- to work on reopening and rebuilding the facility as a place for what he described as the country's "most ruthless and violent" offenders, the AP reports.
33% : Though it's not clear how president's plan might be carried out President Trump announced Sunday that he's moving to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the former prison on an island in California's San Francisco Bay that shut its doors in 1963 and is currently a popular tourist destination.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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