This Day in History: , Al Capone Goes to Prison.
October 17, 1931.
The notorious Chicago
gangster began his 11 year
prison sentence for tax evasion.
Capone initially served his time at
the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, GA. .
He was famously transferred to the
maximum security prison island of Alcatraz.
He was famously transferred to the
maximum security prison island of Alcatraz.
Born in Brooklyn, Capone was
expelled from school and joined
a gang in his early teens.
He was living in Chicago when
Prohibition became the law of the
land in the U.S. in 1920.
Prohibition made
brewing and distribution
of alcohol illegal.
From 1920 up to his imprisonment,
Capone made millions illegally
importing and selling alcohol.
Capone spent his final year
incarcerated in a prison hospital
due to complications from syphilis.
He was released in 1939.
Capone died at the age of
48 at his home in Florida