One of Alcatraz’s last living inmates speaks out on Trump’s plan to reopen prison

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One of Alcatraz’s last living inmates speaks out on Trump’s plan to reopen prison

Charlie Hopkins, one of the last living to have served time in Alcatraz, San Francisco’s notorious island prison, has dismissed President Donald Trump’s order that the jail be reopened.“I don’t think he wants to reopen it, he’s trying to draw attention to the crime rate,” Hopkins, now in his 90s, told ABC7 New York.“When I was on Alcatraz, a rat couldn’t survive.”Hopkins, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, who was hailed in his youth as a Golden Gloves boxer, was sentenced to 17 years behind bars in 1952 for his part in a robbery ring responsible for a string of carjackings.He ..