Robert Stroud
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Robert Franklin Stroud, popularly known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was an American murderer and federal prisoner who became an ornithologist and author while imprisoned at Leavenworth. He was one o
Stroud c.1912
USP Leavenworth
Stroud c. 1920s
Stroud c. late 1930s
The McNeil Island Corrections Center was a prison in the northwest United States, operated by the Washington State Department of Corrections. It was on McNeil Island in Puget Sound in unincorporated P
Robert Stroud
…and later worked as a pimp in the Alaska Territory. In 1909, he killed a bartender and was convicted of manslaughter, receiving a 12-year sentence at McNeil Island. While imprisoned, he developed a reputation for violence, culminating in the fatal stabbing of a prison guard at Leavenworth in 1916. Convicted of…
McNeil Island in 1937
Former prison on McNeil Island, Washington