President Donald Trump has submitted a request for funding, some $152 million, to refurbish and reopen the famed Alcatraz prison on an island near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Currently, the nation’s most secure facility is the “Alcatraz of the Rockies” in Florence, Colorado, where a number of infamous murders are housed, and then of course there’s the plan for the “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida for illegal alien criminals.
The BBC reported Trump’s new plan for “The Rock,” which has been a tourist attraction for a number of years.
Trump’s plan is to make the facility “a state-of-the-art secure prison facility.”
🇺🇸Trump just requested $152 million to turn Alcatraz back into a state-of-the-art maximum-security prison.
The island’s last inmate left in 1963, and now it could house the worst of the worst again after more than 60 years as a tourist trap.pic.twitter.com/t0SNSA6Y2v https://t.co/1yxkgN8U9T
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 4, 2026
President Donald Trump is seeking $152 million to cover the first year of costs to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison as a secure facility. https://t.co/HW6YISRLyE pic.twitter.com/lw1sRGNevk
— CNN (@CNN) April 3, 2026
REVIVING THE ROCK: The White House requested $152 million to begin reopening Alcatraz as a “state-of-the-art secure prison facility.”
The prison, which once housed notorious criminals, including mob boss Al Capone, has been closed for decades because of high operating costs.… pic.twitter.com/81ETccUnin
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 4, 2026
Democrats find the plan unacceptable.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said it was “absurd on its face and should be rejected outright.”
Her opinion is that, “Rebuilding Alcatraz into a modern prison is a stupid notion that would be nothing more than a waste of taxpayer dollars and an insult to the intelligence of the American people.”
Actually, Trump revealed the plan last year on social media, explained he was directing the Bureau of Prisons, the DOJ, FBI and more “to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ.”
The report said the site first was a naval defense fort, then a military prison, then a federal prison, then a movie backdrop.
It housed the likes of Al Capone, George “Machine Gun” Kelly and more.
