Trump’s call to reopen Alcatraz falls flat with tourists, who ask: Why and how?

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Trump’s call to reopen Alcatraz falls flat with tourists, who ask: Why and how?

ALCATRAZ ISLAND, Calif. — The exhibits on Alcatraz Island, the infamous federal prison that decades ago was shuttered and preserved as a national park site and tourist attraction, invite visitors to imagine what it was like to be a guard or an inmate confined to the lonesome, foggy rock in the middle of San Francisco Bay.But a day after President Donald Trump’s May 4 post on social media that he wants to reopen the nearly century-old prison as a “substantially enlarged and rebuilt ALCATRAZ, to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders,” many tourists were imagining a very different role: ..