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Bondi and Burgum tour a crumbling prison with dreams of shark-infested justice

Jason Weisberger
Jul 18, 2025
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Decades of salt, the sea, and neglect have left Alcatraz kinda safe as a tourist destination. People get hurt in our National Parks all the time. Billions of dollars are needed to convert the physical plant into something useable as a prison, unless you are a seriously inhumane and awful kinda of prison designer. The place was shuttered in 1963 because …

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