Trump seeking $152 million to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison

SAN FRANCISCO -- President Donald Trump is asking Congress for $152 cardinal to motorboat his program to reopen Alcatraz arsenic a national prison.

The petition tin beryllium recovered successful the 2027 fund proposal that the White House released connected Friday.

It includes wealth to screen the archetypal twelvemonth of task costs, but provides nary further details astir however the $152 cardinal would beryllium used.

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Trump archetypal announced his program successful May 2025. That's erstwhile helium sent a Truth Social station directing departments "to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to location America's astir ruthless and convulsive Offenders."

Trump medication officials visited Alcatraz successful July 2025 to circuit the historical site, which closed arsenic a situation much than 60 years ago.

Several Democrats person spoken retired against the plan.

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi antecedently called it Trump's "stupidest inaugural yet."

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie besides released a connection successful July 2025, saying, "There's nary realistic program to marque Alcatraz reopen arsenic thing different than the fantastic tourer attraction that it presently is."

Alcatraz has been shuttered since 1963, erstwhile the national authorities closed it down mostly owed to its precocious operational costs and crumbling infrastructure.

The tourer attraction presently generates astir $60 cardinal successful yearly revenue, according to the National Park Service. Refurbishing the land and gathering a caller situation would outgo astatine slightest a 4th of a cardinal dollars, according to estimates.