An curved arrow pointing right. We toured the former prison known as Eastern State Penitentiary, it housed notorious gangster Al Capone and serial bank robber William Francis Sutton. Follow BI ...

Unlike other mobsters, Al Capone didn't go out in a blaze of glory when he died at just 48 in 1947. Instead, the man once called "Public Enemy No. 1" met his demise thanks to syphilis that he'd ...

On October 17, 1931, Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison, and fined tens of thousands of dollars. In 1934 Capone was moved from the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta ...