The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was not dynamited so that high rise condos could be built on the site.

Leave the Kingston Penitentiary alone. It is a National Historic Site, a landmark.

Alcatraz Island is an American National Historic Landmark, and a very popular tourist attraction.

Clothing, jewelry, mugs and playing cards are sold at the Alcatraz gift shop:

A brass key ring.

       












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Shutdown of Kingston Pen clears path for Alcatraz North:
     "The shuttering of Canada's oldest prison has opened up the possibility of turning the Kingston institution into a tourist destination comparable to Alcatraz." by Carys Mills, Globe and Mail, April 22 2012, updated May 8 2018.                     

Peter Hennessy, author of "Canada's Big House: The Dark History of Kingston Penitentiary":
     "The Kingston Penitentiary should be kept more or less intact as an educational institution - a museum/library, a research centre for students of criminology, a facility for high school students doing background study in citizenship education, a place for penal reformers to gather and exchange ideas, a tourist attraction."
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Prisons that were preserved:

The Carleton County Jail at 75 Nicholas Street in Ottawa is now the Ottawa Jail Hostel.

The Ontario Government is preserving the Don Jail in Toronto.

 Ontario Realty Corporation, now Infrastructure Ontario, is saving the Guelph Reformatory buildings and grounds because:
     "Guelph Correctional Centre is a very important cultural heritage landscape." (From: Amec Foster Wheeler Project, March 2017, presented to the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport.)

The Cornwall, Ontario jail is a tourist attraction: