An curved arrow pointing right. We toured the former prison known as Eastern State Penitentiary, it housed notorious gangster Al Capone and serial bank robber William Francis Sutton. Follow BI ...

Al Capone played banjo in the inmate band ... write and illustrate two books and raise canaries and other birds in his Leavenworth cell. He was ordered to give up his birds in 1931, and he was banned ...