CRANSTON — Imprisoned mobster Frank L. “Bobo” Marrapese Jr. is scheduled to be released from prison this afternoon.

Tracey Z. Poole, spokeswoman for the Adult Correctional Institutions, confirmed yesterday that Marapese has a job and will leave the Pinel Building on the prison grounds sometime after 1 p.m. with an electronic monitoring bracelet attached to his ankle.

It will mark the first time that he will take a step outside the prison without handcuffs and leg shackles in 25 years.

Poole declined to say where Marrapese will work, what kind of work he will be doing, or in what city or town he will be employed.

Under the terms of his parole, Marrapese, who was convicted in one gangland slaying and implicated in two other murders, must have a job before prison officials will allow him to leave the institution.

Last month, The Journal reported that Marrapese, 65, had landed a job at Anthony’s Restaurant, on Killingly Street, in Johnston. The report generated a torrent of news coverage and the restaurant withdrew its job offer. As a result, Marrapese was ordered held in the ACI until he got another job.

In recent weeks, there was talk that Marrapese might get a job at a restaurant or liquor store in Providence.

The terms of Marrapese’s parole prohibit him from associating with known felons without the consent of his parole officer. He also will be required to wear the electronic bracelet for at least a year and he will remain on parole for the rest of his life.

He will move back to his home at 104 Elwyn St., in Cranston, not far from the Silver Lake neighborhood in Providence.

In the ’60s and ’70s, Marrapese was a feared enforcer and capo regime in the Patriarca crime family. He operated from the Acorn Social Club midway up Atwells Avenue in the heart of Federal Hill.

The club was recently razed and a restaurant is being built in its place.

In September 1987, Marrapese was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for killing mob associate Richard “Dickie” Callei on March 15, 1975, in the Acorn Social Club. His bullet-ridden body was discovered later that day near a golf course in Rehoboth. The murder remained unsolved for nearly a decade.

Meanwhile, in the 1980s, Marrapese was charged in two other murders: the 1982 gangland slaying of Anthony “The Moron” Mirabella at Fidas Restaurant on Valley Street and the baseball-bat beating of Ronald McElroy, of East Providence.

Separate juries found Marrapese not guilty in the Mirabella and McElroy killings.

bmalinow@projo.com