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Capone’s Cell

Posted on April 24, 2011
In 1929, on his way back to Chicago from Atlantic City, Al Capone was busted in Philadelphia for carrying an unregistered firearm. Unlike other inmates, prison officials allowed Capone to outfit his cell with luxury items such as a radio, oil paintings and lamps.
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