A crane is used to repair the boat dock used by tour boats at Alcatraz Prison, a National Parks site located on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay in San Francisco, California. — Reuters
US President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was converted into a tourist destination because it had become too costly to house America’s worst criminals.
The prison off the coast of San Francisco – nicknamed “The Rock” – is where the government sent notorious gangsters like Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly as well as lesser-known men who were considered too dangerous to lock up elsewhere.
