Cries of 'you cannot be serious!' from Democrats have greeted the news that President Trump is to reopen Alcatraz prison, as BBC News reports:

Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the infamous former prison on an island near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

In a message on his Truth Social site on Sunday, President Trump said that "for too long America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat criminal offenders".

The reopening of Alcatraz - once notorious as one of the US's toughest prisons - would serve as a "symbol of law, order, and justice," he said.

Hollwood is also in uproar as the prison has been used as the location for a number of popular movies such as The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and the charming romcom Sleepless in Alcatraz featuring a stranded tourist who falls in love with the prison janitor.

Experts from El Salvador are rumoured to be advising the Administration on how to refurbish the prison to create a 21st centruy 'safe space' for violent criminals.