Will Reisman, The Examiner
2008-02-06 11:00:00.0
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SAN FRANCISCO -

San Francisco voted against transforming Alcatraz Island and its iconic former prison complex into a “Global Peace Center.”

Proposition C called for Alcatraz to be transferred from the federal government to the authority of San Francisco in order to create a peace center. The measure’s backers gathered 18,000 signatures, but the idea did not gain the needed approval from San Francisco voters to move it forward.

wreisman@examiner.com