Like many Indian reservations, Alcatraz had no modern facilities or fertile soil. The federal prison had closed six ... for every juicy detail. When Al Capone headed there in 1934, the San ...

From the mid-1930s until the mid-1960s, Alcatraz (“the Rock”) was America’s premier maximum-security prison, the final stop for the nation’s most incorrigible inmates, including Al Capone.

Gilles Sabrie/LightRocket/Getty Images Ai Weiwei has never been to Alcatraz ... the austere prison hospital and primitive psychiatric ward, where Al Capone was treated for syphilis and dementia ...

On October 17, 1931, Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison, and fined tens ... privileges denied other prisoners, to Alcatraz. Capone was a good prisoner, but ...

US: “Break the rules and you go to prison. Break the prison rules ... The most famous of all was one Al “Scarface” Capone who had been convicted of tax evasion. Others were George “Machine ...

Alcatraz, a maximum-security prison located on a small island off the coast of San Francisco, was home to some of the most ...

Today is the 82 nd anniversary of the reporting to Alcatraz Prison of one of its most memorable residents; Al Capone. Capone was sent to prison for income tax evasion; in other words, it was a ...

Alcatraz, a maximum-security prison, was operational between 1934 and 1963. American gangster Al Capone was among its most famous inmates. The prison was later reopened as a museum. The ...

On October 17, 1931, Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison, and fined tens ... privileges denied other prisoners, to Alcatraz. Capone was a good prisoner, but ...