{"id":40750,"date":"2025-05-06T06:54:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/a-hard-cell-alcatraz-tourists-dismiss-trumps-insane-plan-to-revive-it-as-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T06:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:54:59","slug":"a-hard-cell-alcatraz-tourists-dismiss-trumps-insane-plan-to-revive-it-as-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/a-hard-cell-alcatraz-tourists-dismiss-trumps-insane-plan-to-revive-it-as-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"A hard cell? Alcatraz tourists dismiss Trump\u2019s \u2018insane\u2019 plan to revive it as prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to one of San Francisco\u2019s most popular tourist destinations point to cost, feasibility and its legacy of Indigenous incarceration<\/p>\n<p>In the choppy waters of the San Francisco Bay, on a windswept rock, lies a crumbling former federal prison that\u2019s now at the center of Donald Trump\u2019s latest real estate proposal: \u201cREBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!\u201d he announced on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114452025916969327\">Truth Social<\/a> over the weekend, to \u201cserve as a symbol of Law, Order and JUSTICE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the day after Trump\u2019s declaration, throngs of tourists queued up for the ferry at Fisherman\u2019s Wharf to visit the island.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/06\/alcatraz-tourists-trump-prison-reaction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to one of San Francisco\u2019s most popular tourist destinations point to cost, feasibility and its legacy of Indigenous incarceration In the choppy waters of the San Francisco Bay, on a windswept rock, lies a crumbling former federal prison that\u2019s now at the center of Donald Trump\u2019s latest real estate proposal: \u201cREBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!\u201d &#8230; <a title=\"A hard cell? Alcatraz tourists dismiss Trump\u2019s \u2018insane\u2019 plan to revive it as prison\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/a-hard-cell-alcatraz-tourists-dismiss-trumps-insane-plan-to-revive-it-as-prison\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A hard cell? Alcatraz tourists dismiss Trump\u2019s \u2018insane\u2019 plan to revive it as prison\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}