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