No. of Recommendations: 15
Bonkers
Yep. Worth remembering that a major part of why Alcatraz was closed is that it's vastly more expensive to incarcerate prisoners there than any other federal prison. So when it reached the point where massive capital expenditures were needed to keep the prison functional, combined with those really high operating costs, the decision to close it was an economic no-brainer.
So in an administration that's ostensibly trying to eliminate waste in federal spending, this is decision that's hard to justify.
