President Trump Seeks To Rebuild Alcatraz As “State-Of-The-Art Secure Prison” In Budget Proposal

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In its fiscal year 2027 budget proposal, the Trump administration seeks to rebuild Alcatraz into a “state-of-the-art prison facility.”

The White House will request Congress for $152 million to cover the first year of project costs.

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The line-item follows the president’s call last year to reopen Alcatraz, which shut down in 1963. The federal maximum-security prison, located on a San Francisco island, housed some of America’s most famous criminals, including Al Capone, with an average prison population of about 260-275.

Since its closure, Alcatraz has continued to fascinate moviegoers, including in Clint Eastwood’s 1969 drama “Escape from Alcatraz.”

In a Truth Social post last year, Trump called to “rebuild and open Alcatraz,” directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons and other federal agencies to reopen a “substantially enlarged and rebuild” prison on the Bay Area island.

“For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering,” he wrote. “When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.

Democrat politicians criticized the proposal to transform Alcatraz back into a prison.

“Trump’s idiotic quest to sink $2 billion into ruining a globally popular tourist attraction is the epitome of waste, fraud, and abuse,” state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) told the New York Post.

“Trump’s dementia continues to get the best of him. Making Alcatraz a prison again isn’t a thing, and we’re not going to let him turn Alcatraz into his newest gulag. Back off,” he added.

Wiener is seeking to replace the retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in the House of Representatives.

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San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie declined to comment, but a spokesman noted that he made comments last year against converting Alcatraz back into a prison.

In May 2025, the Bureau of Prisons partnered with the National Park Service conducted its first assessment to see if modern corrections infrastructure can be realistically brought to the island.

A few months later in July, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited the island to personally inspect the site. Bondi, after the tour, described it as a “terrific facility.”

Alcatraz was closed as a federal prison in 1963 but now serves as a popular tourist destination and bird sanctuary.

Known as “The Rock,” in its heyday, it was an imposing fortress that housed famous criminals like Al Capone, “Machine Gun” Kelly, the “Birdman of Alcatraz” Robert Stroud, and “Whitey” Bulger.

Acts 28 ends abruptly and that’s never sat right with me. With the inclusion of Acts 29, we are given a nice well-rounded finale to Luke’s biography and some interesting closure to Pontius Pilate as well. Join me as I continue my Lost Books of the Bible series on YouTube, reading from Acts 29, 3 Corinthians, and the Phoenix of Tertullian.

You can read along with these texts and more on our Sacred Scripture page. 

IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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