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https://nypost.com/2026/04/03/us-news/trump-demands-152m-to-transform-alcatraz-from-california-tourist-trap-to-foreboding-prison/
Trump wants $152M to transform Alcatrazfrom beloved tourist attraction to feared federal prison
By Emily Goodin and Josh Koehn
Published April 3, 2026, 12:47 p.m. ET
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.”
In 2025, the Trump administration started feasibility studies to reopen Alcatraz as a maximum-security federal prison for violent offenders and undocumented immigrants.
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