What were their crimes?
Not much to find out there but what I did find was that they robbed a bank in Alabama (no one shot, no one injured) and were captured several days later in Ohio.
What they had actually done was break into the Bank of Columbia and its money vault and absconded with the monies
Due to their repeated attempts to escape from jail, they were sentenced to Alcatraz...........
In my humble opinion, since the monies were recovered, the brothers served some time on Alcatraz until their escape and they've been model citizens ever since, they should be granted pardons and allowed to return home........
Due to their escape, don't forget the monies saved from not having to house them for whatever length of time they were sentenced..........