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.
it was made good use by YURI in RA2.
Lock up the Trump administration there. No heat no nothing f those losers
it would cost a lot more than that.
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?
Priorities, I guess.
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 :)”
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.
Actually would be kind of interesting plot to a movie.
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
ADX Florence is far stiffer and built for even worse criminals while having much less logistical and operational issues vs. Alcatraz.
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.
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.
Wouldn’t that just get pushed until he dies anyway, like that Black Mirror episode where they torture the uploaded consciousness of a man for entertainment?
Yes, that’s the hope.
Like yeah, you’d have to have some limiter on it so that it wouldn’t just kill him quickly, but yes, the goal is absolutely to put him through as much excruciating pain as possible, in public.
Sic Semper Tyrannis.
Can the gift shop do souvenirs to order? Like if I wanted one of his tiny fingers from his tiny hands?
It could be his own Elba. I would be willing to chip in for that while we eradicate Trumpists from government.
Will they accept foreign donations?
They’re been taking foreign gifts for plenty of other things, so I don’t see why not.
Do we get to put him there when the renovations are done?
This is so stupid
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?
Alcatraz was closed because it was a scam not worth operating like Trump’s casinos and his marriages.
likely he wants to use Alcatraz as a laundering scheme, like his casino with russian money via deustche bank.
I thought it was because maintaining an island is a bitch and it’s easier to build a prison in the middle of a desert with the same effect IE Fulton.
Yeah so the boat company made money the supply companies. The city and government of San Francisco. Everyone was on the take.
