His mother, Theresa Capone, definitely viewed Al through rosy lenses, but all mothers do. This adoration certainly attributed to more of the tender moments Al had in the public eye. At his time in Alcatraz in particular, Theresa Capone wrote a letter to a man on the Alcatraz prison board, Mr. Batis, begging him to transfer Al into another prison or ward. Around the time she wrote the letter, she had been given word that her son had been treated quite poorly by other inmates on more than one occasion. She had a great amount of anxiety surrounding this stating in her letter, "I certainly feel that he is not safe in such a place as Alcatraz.... This is not the first attempt on his life there, how do you think he feels..." The amount of controversy surrounding the Capone family in Chicago was already massive, so hearing that her beloved son was being harmed for committing tax evasion, a crime that today would simply place one in federal
His mother, Theresa Capone, definitely viewed Al through rosy lenses, but all mothers do. This adoration certainly attributed to more of the tender moments Al had in the public eye. At his time in Alcatraz in particular, Theresa Capone wrote a letter to a man on the Alcatraz prison board, Mr. Batis, begging him to transfer Al into another prison or ward. Around the time she wrote the letter, she had been given word that her son had been treated quite poorly by other inmates on more than one occasion. She had a great amount of anxiety surrounding this stating in her letter, "I certainly feel that he is not safe in such a place as Alcatraz.... This is not the first attempt on his life there, how do you think he feels..." The amount of controversy surrounding the Capone family in Chicago was already massive, so hearing that her beloved son was being harmed for committing tax evasion, a crime that today would simply place one in federal