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AL IN JAIL


Philadephia's Eastern Penitentiary






Capone arrested at movie theater for gun posession.





Al Capone and Frankie Rio mugshots in Philadelphia.






Al Capone's cell at Eatsern State Penitentiary is a main attraction for many who visit there.
Al took a powder and served a year after the Atlantic city gangster conference.
(Photo courtesy of Gerri DiSalvio Ruppert )





Eastern State Penitentiary i.d. card.
(Taken from novelty postcard on knick knacks page. Copyright Eastern State Penitentiary).








Al's jail cell at the old Eastern Penitentiary in Philadelphia.The cell still stands today and is furnished every year exactly as Al had it when he was incarcerated there in 1929 for weapons posession. Al had very special privileges as you can notice in photo.
(Photo courtesy of Gerri DiSalvio Ruppert )








Gerri DiSalvio Ruppert in front of Al's cell. She kindly supplied above photos for the site and got into the Capone era thanks to her dad (Mr. Daniel DiSalvio).





Reporters including Jake Lingle were waiting for Al to be released. Al was already enroute to Chicago when this photo was taken much to the dismay of these reporters.






Al in one of his many court appearances.







Altanta Penitentiary

Al's next trip to jail was in Atlanta ,Ga where he still had some control by spreading money around. He hired himself bodyguards and spent money on sports equipment for the prison baseball team. According to Al's cellmate Morris"red" Rudensky, Al went beserk when he found out he was being transferred to the new maximum security prison called ALCATRAZ, also known as "The Rock". All of Al's privileges were taken away from him at Alcatraz.




Al Capone hiding handcuffs after  leaving court in Atlanta  Nov.11,1932.
Al lost the court appeal to overturn his prison sentence.He had argued that the statutes of limitations had run out during his tax trial, but it was too late and overturned.



Al's daily regimen and meals in the Atlanta Pen.







Next stop Alcatraz


First Posted June 2009