On Friday, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, criticized President Donald Trump’s plan to reopen Alcatraz Island as a prison after Trump requested $152 million in a 2027 federal budget request to cover first-year costs.
A news release issued by Wiener’s office said that the total cost of the project to reopen Alcatraz would be $2 billion.
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