![]() Of those convicts, 23 were captured, six were shot to death and two drowned. There were no confirmed prisoner escapes from Alcatraz.Ī total of 36 inmates put the supposedly “escape-proof” Alcatraz to the test. 85 became so cooperative that he was permitted to play banjo in the Alcatraz prison band, the Rock Islanders, which gave regular Sunday concerts for other inmates. “It looks like Alcatraz has got me licked,” he reportedly told his warden. Capone had bribed guards to receive preferential treatment while serving his tax-evasion sentence in Atlanta, but that changed after his transfer to the island prison. The notorious gangster and mob boss was among the first prisoners to occupy the new Alcatraz federal prison in August 1934. Al Capone played banjo in the inmate band. ![]()
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