The Trump administration appears to be gearing up to announce it will reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison, an idea it has teased for months.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, slammed what she said was a plan for Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Attorney General Pam Bondi to announce the prison’s reopening early Thursday morning. Critics have previously called the idea impossible, and said the facility is “totally inoperable.”
“With stiff competition, the planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump Administration’s stupidest initiative yet,” Pelosi wrote in a statement. “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.”
After visiting Alcatraz early Thursday, Bondi and Burgum are scheduled to visit the Presidio in the afternoon, a spokesperson for Pelosi told the Chronicle. The House is currently in session, so Pelosi does not plan to attend the events, the spokesperson said.
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