Robert Stroud

Robert Stroud, who was better known to the public as The Birdman of Alcatraz, was transferred to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in 1942. At a young age, he took to pimping, and was involved in a murder during a drunken brawl in the King Cole Bar. After he had killed officer Andrew Turner in Lincoln Correctional Facility, he was transferred to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, with his sentence extended. A self taught ornithologist, he wrote several books. His Digest on the Diseases of Birds is considered a classic in ornithology. He was put to solitary confinement for most of his duration in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, and after a term in the prison's hospital, he was transferred to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, due to his seriously detioriating health at the time. Although he was nicknamed The Birdman of Alcatraz, he was not permitted to keep birds in his prison cell at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, as he had at Lincoln Correctional Facility, because it was forbidden. He died in 1963.