Birdman of Alcatraz

The most famous inmate was in prison, Alcatraz, Robert Stroud, also for the public as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" (by the so-called excited by the interest he developed in canaries and birds during the thirty years of his time in Leavenworth). Stroud was first convicted in 1909 for manslaughter, after he brutally shot and murdered a bartender, and was sent to serve out his sentence at McNeil Iceland, Washington.

Due to his violent behavior and complaints from other inmates, Stroudwas transferred to Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas. In 1916, Stroud stabbed a guard to death in prison Mess Hall after he was refused a visit with his brother. He was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to death by hanging, and expect to be in solitary confinement for death sentence.

In 1920, President Woodrow Wilson changed his death sentence to life imprisonment without parole, mainly on the plea of old mother Stroud. But his unpredictableOutbursts and violent character forced the authorities to transfer permanently to the separation unit Stroud.

In Leavenworth, Stroud began to develop a great interest in birds, and he was allowed to breed and maintain a laboratory. He even has two books on the Canary Islands and their diseases. However, like prison guards began to some of the equipment he had requested for his so-called "scientific" studies discover, was actually used to make a brew or for "home," craft, he was transferred toAlcatraz in 1942 to spend the rest of his life.

Robert Stroud spent Pega years in prison Alcatraz. Here, too, he was placed in segregation in the D-block for six years. In 1963, he was brought dead from natural causes at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, had, after 11 years in the prison hospital. The story of this man was made famous when the movie, "the Birdman of Alcatraz," Starring Burt Lancaster appeared in1962nd

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