Reaction continued to pour in on Monday in response to President Trump's idea to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison.

The proposal, which would be extraordinarily expensive and logistically challenging, drew derision from locals and tourists.

Nearly all interviewed agreed it would be very expensive to restore the historic facility on an island in San Francisco Bay.

When Danielle Reed-Reese, the owner of Queen’s Louisiana Po-boy Cafe on the waterfront side of San Francisco’s Embarcadero, awoke to news that President Donald Trump had said he wanted to turn ...

US President Donald Trump’s plan to turn Alcatraz back into a federal prison was summarily rejected on Monday by some visitors to the tourist site in San Francisco Bay. Trump revealed a plan ...

Trump told reporters on Sunday night while returning to the White House from Florida that his Alcatraz plan was “just an idea I’ve had” to counter the “radicalized judges [that] want to ...

ALCATRAZ – Visitors to the prison here had mixed reactions Monday to President Donald ... and he finds Trump’s Alcatraz plan not so much far right as far out there. “He can’t be serious ...

Several state and local Democrats issued muted reactions, dismissing Trump ... t like San Francisco,” Wiener said. Of the Alcatraz plan, he added: “If there’s any way for us to gum this ...

Local leaders call Trump's plan to reopen Alcatraz 'absurd' Reaction continued to pour in on Monday in response to President Trump's idea to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison.