Pelosi slams plans to reopen Alcatraz as 'stupid' ahead of AG Bondi's reported visit [View all]
Source: News 9 ABC
Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will reportedly be in San Francisco on Thursday to announce plans to reopen Alcatraz.
President Donald Trump mentioned in May wanting to reopen the federal penitentiary "to house America's most ruthless and violent offenders."
The former notorious prison, nicknamed "The Rock," was closed in 1963 due to crumbling infrastructure and the high costs of repairing and supplying the island facility. It has been a National Park Service site since the 70s.
"With stiff competition, the planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump Administration's stupidest initiative yet. It should concern us all that clearly the only intellectual resources the Administration has drawn upon for this foolish notion are decades-old fictional Hollywood movies," Pelosi said in a statement.
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