Tourist attraction or illegal dumpsite?

Dodge the trash: Hikers greeted by unsightly rubbish in Pulau Jerejak.

GEORGE TOWN: It was once known as ‘the Alcatraz of Malaysia’ as it housed a maximum security prison, but after the Jerejak Rehabilitation Centre was closed in 1993, there were plans to develop Pulau Jerejak into a resort.

However, the discovery of an illegal dumpsite on the far side of Pulau Jerejak has more in common with its unsavoury past rather than a bright future.