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Birdman of Alcatraz's Book on Federal Prison Makes It to Press After 51-Year Delay

Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz immortalized in an eponymous film starring Burt Lancaster, wrote a 2,000 page history of the Federal Bureau of Prisons before his death in 1963.  That book is finally making it to press, after 51 years of legal wrangling.

Stroud's book, "Looking Outward: A History ...

 

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