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Al Capone Accomplishments

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One of the most famous Alcatraz inmates was Alphonse “Al” Capone. He was born in 1899 into a wealthy family, who has emigrated to New York City six years before Alphonse was born. They immigrated during the United States’ Panic of 1983, but the Capone family did not suffer because Al’s father, Gabriel, was a very educated barber. After a couple years of working to save up enough money, Gabriel Capone opened his own barbershop in a Park Avenue tenement, which kept his family financially stable during the Panic of 1983 (Van Raaphorst, 2011). Alphonse attended school for eleven years until he started skipping school more and more frequently. He officially dropped out of school at the age of fourteen when he got in a fight with his teacher and his principal punished him with a whipping. Capone chose to get a job in preparation to handle adulthood in Brooklyn, New York. A few years passed and Capone joined his first gang, the South Brooklyn Rippers. While with the South Brooklyn Rippers, Capone stated associated himself with …show more content…

This organization decided in attempts to rehabilitate criminals, they decided to use parole, probation, and community corrections, work release and even special courts for juveniles (“Prison,” 2015). Many prisoners did manual labor. They would make products would be sold to people in the city. It was until the 1920s that labor critics started a movement to restrict prison labor. It was modified in in 1929 when Congress passed the Hawes-Cooper Act. This prohibited the sale of prison-made products in the states. Following, in 1930, Congress prohibited the transport of prison-made products to any state. The Ashurt-Sumners Act was passed in 1935 which successfully ended the making of goods in prison and the selling of a product from a

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