Learn more about the several escapes attempts and the strict conditions of Alcatraz which drove many prisoners over the edge. Learn about Alcatraz in my book "Dillinger, The Hidden Truth."

Capone ran an empire of Bootlegging, prostitution, gambling, murder, and several other crimes which he called business. He ordered the deaths of some 300 to 600 people in the streets of Chicago.

But Capone wasn't all bad. In fact he helped alot of people during the hard times of the depression. It's true, while the Government did nothing to help the millions of poor people, Capone opened up bread and soup lines to feed the poor and hundred. He even stood on the streets for hours and served the food himself.

He started a city ordinance to assure that no children in Chicago will have to drink spoiled milk. He bought blocks of baseball tickets for Boy Scout troops. He contributed money to build the St.Attractas School. At Christmas time Capone dressed up and played Santa Claus for the neighborhood kids.

Capone was found guilty of tax invasion on October 24,1931. Who was the man that finally got Capone? Was it Elliot Ness of the Untouchables? Today known as the ATF (Alcohal, Tobacco, and Firearms).

Ness and his men did break up some of Capones stills, but it was another department which would later be known as the IRS that sent the badman to Alcatraz. Over the years Ness has received all the credit for the man who got Capone, credit he never deserved.

Ness rarely even left his office and never carried a gun in his life, according to his men. Capone went to his grave oweing the Government eight hundred thousand dollars. It was said that his earnings in the nineteen twenties was one to ten million a year. Capone's office was located at the Lexington Hotel, room 530 on Chicago's South side.

Many dangerous criminals faced life in prisons like Alcatraz, some shot it out with police while others were sent to the chair. The electric chair was introduced on August 6,1890 as a new means for execution with the same effects as burning at the stake but more modern and a quicker death. Many gangsters of the nineteen thirties feared the thought of dying in the chair and preferred to shoot it out with police.

Now days the crime rate is at an extreme high because there is more people in the world and because the fear of a painful death for violate crimes is gone. The chair has been replaced with lethel injection. Now days murderers can torture people with painful deaths and know that if they get caught they may have to pay for their crimes ten years later with a peaceful painless death.

I will not get into what actually happens to the persons body who is being electrocuted, but believe me it is not pleasant. Some people argue that the death penalty violates the eight amendment with protects people from cruel and unusual punishment. But the fourteenth amendment guarantees equal protection of the laws. In some States a stranger can break into your home threaten to kill you or another family member.