US President Donald Trump is seeking $152m (£115m) to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison as part of his proposed budget for the 2027 fiscal year.
Located near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, the site, also known as The Rock, was once regarded as one of America’s most notorious prisons, but has served as a tourist attraction in recent years.
The budget request is seeking money “to rebuild Alcatraz as a state-of-the-art secure prison facility”, with funds covering the first year of costs.
The plan has been met with scepticism by a number of politicians in California, with questions raised about the final cost of the project and the challenges of running Alcatraz as an active prison.
The maximum security facility was closed in 1963. As a tourist site, it is currently run by the National Park Service.
Alcatraz was closed because it was a scam not worth operating like Trump’s casinos and his marriages.
What a fucking moron.
Only on the condition that it’s only used to imprison him, the members of his administrations, and the architects at organizations like the heritage foundation, and then I’ll even chip in some of my own money.
And that it continue to be used as a tourist site, so people can go there and look at him and the other prisoners there like zoo animals.
One more condition.
The tourists have access to a button that injects Trump with a tiny, survivable dose of the nerve gas from The Rock.
