Alcatraz prison restoration plan gets cold reception from tourists

Alcatraz Island, on which the prison is located, welcomes more than a million tourists each year. — Photos: Reuters

United States president Donald Trump’s plan to turn Alcatraz back into a federal prison was summarily rejected earlier this week by some visitors to the tourist site in San Francisco Bay, California.

Trump revealed a plan recently to rebuild and expand the notorious island prison, a historic landmark known as “The Rock” and operated by the US government’s National Park Service.