Alcatraz was known for housing some of the most notorious criminals, including Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, and Robert Franklin Stroud (the "Birdman of Alcatraz").

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.

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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 ...

Al Capone got an icy reception when he arrived ... where he enjoyed privileges denied other prisoners, to Alcatraz. Capone was a good prisoner, but his health was in sharp decline.