(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to convert Alcatraz back into a maximum-security prison could cost roughly $2 billion, Axios reported on Friday citing administration sources.
“Estimates are still ongoing and there is no reportable final number,” a White House spokesperson told Reuters.
Alcatraz was closed as a maximum-security prison in 1963 after 29 years of operation, because it was too expensive to continue operating. Trump previously said he would order the long-shuttered facility, now operated as a historic site in San Francisco Bay, to once again house violent criminals.
(Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Daniel Wallis)
