A gangster who rose to fame during the Prohibition era as leader of the Chicago Outfit, Al Capone is one of the most notorious American gangsters. The head of a legendary crime syndicate, Bruce Stack, ...

Al Capone’s wife Mae attempts to hide her face as she goes to visit her husband at the Alcatraz hospital on March 1, 1926. Capone was suffering from a mental illness brought on by tertiary syphilis.

Part of a memorandum dated February 5, 1938, that appears to describe Al Capone having a seizure in Alcatraz prison after a period of confusion. Family photographs taken in 1945. Reprinted with ...

“I want to be on Alcatraz like I want poison oak on my private parts,” Moose complains in the opening paragraphs of “Al Capone Does My Shirts.” Only after he falls into well-intentioned cahoots with ...

Al Capone got an icy reception when he arrived ... where he enjoyed privileges denied other prisoners, to Alcatraz. Capone was a good prisoner, but his health was in sharp decline.

After Capone was released from prison in 1939, he retired from mob life and spent his final years in the Miami mansion. Pette was 3 when her grandfather died, but some of her earliest memories are ...