U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular tourist attraction to a federal penitentiary.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited the site on Thursday to study whether reopening it as a federal prison could work.

( NewsNation) — Former acting director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Hugh Hurwitz says reviving and reopening Alcatraz, the infamous California prison off the coast of San Francisco, would be a massive undertaking. President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed strong interest in reopening the prison.