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.
Priorities, I guess.
One of many deeply frustrating things about Trump’s fire hose of terrible and frequently actively evil ideas is that not only do they come in such volumes that it’s overwhelming, but it’s also incredibly hard to tell if something is a brief fixation he will quickly move on from or something that is going to be a recurring issue to deal with.
Which is to say: Christ, he’s back on this one again?
The worst part is he’ll probably get it. But ask for $152m to improve infrastructure and Republicans say no while Democrats say “No. #blm :)”
ADX Florence is far stiffer and built for even worse criminals while having much less logistical and operational issues vs. Alcatraz.
To use as a political prison.
Kill 2 birds with one stone and make it into a ballroom.
I second this. It seems everyone in Lumpty Trumpty’s orbit is either:
A rapist, child abuser, fraudster, and/or a war criminal.
Putin’s running dog.
Do we get to put him there when the renovations are done?
This is so stupid
I fucking hate being stuck in the US. It is legitimately embarrassing. I wish I could move, but that takes years and tens of thousands of dollars to do correctly, even if you were to try to go somewhere with a low GDP.
We pay taxes for this. For all this shit.
are you relatively financially secure (able to park couple grand in a stock, and not be tempted/forced to liquidate it) and willing to take investment advice from a complete stranger over the internet? could speed this whole process up greatly
He’s spending money like crazy on useless stuff we dont need.
As intended. They’re trying to crash the dollar/currency system to replace it with some crypto backed nonsense. Well that and to make sure the technofascists can own everything.
I guess this is why you can never give a president the power of the purse.
This highlights another breakage in the setup of the American system-- citizens need the power to recall both congressional reps and the president, and justices. It cant just be by periodic elections, and impeachment isnt really a functional process. It barely exists as a check/balance.
Its almost as if the founding fathers designed the system to be subject to special interests acting outside of citizens interests. I think they mistrusted the people more than they mistrustsed aristorcats and wealthy people like themselves. Not beleivers in true democracy at all, in the end.
I’ve been to Alcatraz prison and gone on the tour and one of the things that she spoke about was how much of a pain it was being on an island. Since you’re totally the mercy of the sea is to whether or not you can get supplies in.
The only real advantage of Alcatraz was that it was difficult to escape from but you can get the exact same result with fencing and guards, so there’s no point putting up with the logistical challenges have been stuck on an island, which is why it was closed.
What makes you think dUmpf wants to provide supplies to the island?
Of course Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz.
It is famously a prison where the worst criminals went. And just as famously, a prisoner escaped, never to be seen again.
He’s just planning ahead. Personal plans. They’re not particularly good plans, they’re not cunning plans - in fact, they’re pretty stupid plans, to be perfectly honest.
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.
Can the gift shop do souvenirs to order? Like if I wanted one of his tiny fingers from his tiny hands?
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.
Look at? You get to piss on them from above.
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.
Will they accept foreign donations?
It could be his own Elba. I would be willing to chip in for that while we eradicate Trumpists from government.
$152 million won’t even bring it up to code. The answer is no. Quit distracting us with this nonsense and just go to Hell. Satan’s waiting.
