Trump requests $152m funding to restore Alcatraz as prison
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President Trump is requesting $152 million in his 2027 fiscal year budget proposal to restore Alcatraz, the former federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, and reopen it as an operational prison. Trump first signaled this intention last May when he called on the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security to rebuild the facility, praising its historical reputation on Truth Social. The budget request represents a concrete step toward fulfilling that directive, allocating substantial federal funding for the restoration and reopening of the island prison, which closed in 1963. Alcatraz was known for housing high-security inmates and has since become a national historical landmark; reopening it would require significant infrastructure work and represent a shift in federal corrections policy. The proposal signals the Trump administration's focus on expanding federal prison capacity and reviving maximum-security detention facilities.
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