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Trump's new Alcatraz prison could cost $2.5b, Axios reports

Trump's new Alcatraz prison could cost $2.5b, Axios reports

Trump's new Alcatraz prison could cost $2.5b, Axios reports
Visitors tour the Alcatraz prison complex located on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay near San Francisco, California, US, on July 17, 2025.
PHOTO: Reuters

US President Donald Trump's plan to convert Alcatraz back into a maximum-security prison could cost roughly $2 billion (S$2.5 billion), Axios reported on Friday (July 18) citing administration sources.

"Estimates are still ongoing and there is no reportable final number," a White House spokesperson told Reuters.

Alcatraz was closed as a maximum-security prison in 1963 after 29 years of operation, because it was too expensive to continue operating. Trump previously said he would order the long-shuttered facility, now operated as a historic site in San Francisco Bay, to once again house violent criminals.

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