Is Trump’s Plan to Reopen the Notorious Alcatraz Prison Realistic?

On May 4, President Donald Trump announced that he intends to resurrect the infamous Alcatraz facility, located on a rocky island in San Francisco Bay, as a modern maximum-security prison. The announcement sparked immediate backlash from California officials and raised serious questions about the practicality of converting the site, now a tourist destination, back into a federal penitentiary for housing the nation’s most dangerous offenders.

To realize Trump’s vision would require massive infrastructure investments and congressional funding approval. Here’s what to know.