The true story of three inmates who attempt a daring escape from the infamous prison, Alcatraz Island ... which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once by three inmates ...

For almost 30 years Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was the countries toughest prison and a living hell for the high risk and high profile trouble makers men like Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly and ...

Al Capone got an ... In 1934 Capone was moved from the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, where he enjoyed privileges denied other prisoners, to Alcatraz. Capone was a good prisoner, but his health ...

“I want to be on Alcatraz like I want poison oak on my private parts,” Moose complains in the opening paragraphs of “Al Capone Does My Shirts.” Only after he falls into well-intentioned cahoots with ...

Al Capone’s wife Mae attempts to hide her face as she goes to visit her husband at the Alcatraz hospital on March 1, 1926. Capone was suffering from a mental illness brought on by tertiary syphilis.

Part of a memorandum dated February 5, 1938, that appears to describe Al Capone having a seizure in Alcatraz prison after a period of confusion. Family photographs taken in 1945. Reprinted with ...