Sam Bankman-Fried had hoped to win freedom by making a long-shot bid for a presidential pardon. Instead, he began the next ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We toured the former prison known as Eastern State Penitentiary, it housed notorious gangster Al Capone and serial bank robber William Francis Sutton.

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 ...