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Posted on 04/04/2026 3:33:05 AM PDT by equaviator
WASHINGTON — President Trump wants to make California’s Alcatraz Island into an active prison again — feared by criminals and impossible to escape. Trump’s budget to Congress on Friday includes a $152 million request to get the long-shuttered iconic lockup up and running again as a “state-of-the-art secure prison facility.”
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$152M to restore Alcatraz? Sounds like a bargain. I’ve seen $1M to restore a roof. (Former govt building in PA.)
I have been saying this for years. First inmate? Nancy Pelosi. So that she can spend her last years on earth overlooking her beloved city and state. You know the one she raped and pillaged.
Although, my plan did not include a makeover. Everyone would be given a tent, a sleeping bag and one packet of seeds. Figure the rest of it yourselves.
Great long term facility for shifty Schiff, Swallowell, and Pigolsi
No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz... And no one ever will.
It’s a terrible idea and America is BROKE.
Ol’ pragmatic me wonders about handling the sanitary situation on the island, which then lead me to offshore oil-drilling rigs...same problem. Hence copy & paste:
Oil Field Sewage
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Oil field
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Just another distraction shoe meant to be all flash, No substance.
There’s no way that’s going to happen and he knows it unless he is truly a mental midget.
That place is so substandard it would never pass the legal standards any court including the Supremes would allow.
He needs to get serious. This isn’t the 1930s.
Deterrence...its a biatch with wings.
Bring Alcatraz back.
Great place for Comey, Brennan, Schiff, and that whole club of liberal fascists.
Put their names on the cells dedicated to their eventual incarceration.
I agree. There are much better places to build a new Ultra Max. A hole that will swallow Swallowell.
Beloved tourist attraction?!?
Bad idea. It could be where all the homeless are moved to though.
Why not make it both? A feared federal prison AND a beloved tourist attraction!
I wouldn’t go to San Francisco these days, but yeah, the Alcatraz tour is very worth it. But the tour would also make it obvious to someone why that place will never reopen. Trying to think of an example but is from a different era.
He’s just living in a reality show saying things he thinks sounds cool and tough. But it’s a stupid idea, couldn’t possibly be done for that amount… and not even needed. It wouldn’t improve the lives of any American in any way.
Instead of finding new ways to spend money, Trump should resurrect DOGE and work with the GOP leadership to start making some real spending cuts. He wants $500 billion more military spending so he can pursue forever wars, just like his predecessors.
Donald Trump is fiscally irresponsible.
GREAT
LOL! Yes, MAGA
Ludicrous.
The construction cost would be a multiple of the estimate, and operating costs would be astronomical.
Do we really have a problem with escapes from maximum security prisons? This is a very expensive solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
There was an Alcatraz tour in the movie “So I married an Axe Murderer.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE5rKV2_L1s
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