Al Capone was 14 when he committed his first petty crime in Brooklyn in 1913. He rose to leader of the Chicago Mob at 26, where he was involved in gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, bribery, narcotics, robbery, protection rackets, and murder. After eluding the law, the gangster was finally arrested in 1931 for tax evasion and jailed. Released 8 years later, Capone died in Miami Beach at age 48, ravaged by syphilis. Read Who Cares? about the struggle for dignity at Woodruff Home for the Aged, “a lively place where old people go to die.” Learn more about the book and its characters, aged 9-90, in NOVELS.
The Chicago gangster began his life of crime as a teenager in NYC
Woodruff Home for the Aged, where aging with dignity battles corporate greed
