they furnished his room with a typewriter and a britanicca. as bob mackenzie reported back in 2000. the mob boss was one of many notorious criminals sent to the rock. >> there are times when the island appears almost beautiful. times when the blue shade of evening soften the brutal outlines of its concrete walls and cold clammy buildings and make it look like someone's fantasy get away. but on a typical damp day the place is stripped down to its constitutional bluntness, hammered by wind. surrounded by bone chilling water. built without a hint of softness. al alcatraz from its beginnings was rightly called the rock. a place meant to isolation and punish, to grind men down. to provide what people in the system called hard time. and the men who did the time were hard cases. armed robbers, gangsters, killers. men such as machine gun kelly, alvin karvis. al capone. >> this is d block the notorious isolation wing of alcatraz. just imagine being in one of these cells 24 hours a day, fed three times a day through a slot in the door. no books, no magazines, no radio. all your mail heavily c