Record
Finding aid
1934-08-22/1939-01-04
National Archives Catalog
Capone's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 85 (National Archives catalog entry)
Catalog entry for Capone's comprehensive Alcatraz inmate case file, 2,688 pages, not yet online. The description gives receipt from Atlanta on 22 August 1934, transfer on 4 January 1939, and death on 25 January 1947 at Miami Beach.
- Date
- 1934-08-22/1939-01-04
- Kind
- finding-aid
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- NAID
- 117695842
- Rights
- A catalog description of a Bureau of Prisons inmate case file (Record Group 129), a United States government record, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The catalog marks the file unit "Use: Unrestricted"; the series notes that newspaper articles and some photographs within it may be copyrighted.
The catalog title is “CAPONE, ALPHONSE GABRIEL "SCARFACE" - Alcatraz Number 85.” The file unit belongs to the series Comprehensive Case Files of Former Inmates Incarcerated at U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California, in the Records of the Bureau of Prisons at the National Archives at San Francisco. The catalog gives “Pages in File: 2688” and marks the file “Not Yet Available Online.” It has no digital objects, so the pages themselves have not been read for this archive.
The catalog description gives these fields: birth date 01/17/1899; birthplace Brooklyn; offense “INCOME TAX LAWS: INCOME TAX EVASION”; received at Alcatraz 08/22/1934 from “US PENITENTIARY, ATLANTA”; transferred 01/04/1939 to “CAL”; death date 01/25/1947; death place Miami Beach, FL. Those are the catalog’s entries, not readings of the file.
The series page says the series covers about 1,550 men in 1,576 file units, of which four are online, and that files may include progress reports, mail and visitor records, medical records, mug shots and rap sheets. The transfer date here differs from the January 6, 1939 header on the warden’s notebook page; that page sets out the conflicting dates.
