| shavenferret said: Trump is seeking $152 million in order to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison. Now there’s something any of us would have predicted lmao |
Alcatraz brings in $60 million a year as a tourist attraction, total costs to rebuild the island into a modern "supermax" facility are estimated at approximately $2 billion.
Operating it as a prison again is estimated to cost 40 to 60 million a year, operating a facility on an island is estimated at over $500 per inmate per day, compared to roughly $120–$164 at standard mainland federal prisons.
But it would be nice to see Trump, Biden and all their lackeys in there. That's worth a tiny slice of the defense budget.
