Robert Stroud, “The Birdman of Alcatraz,” is released from solitary confinement for the first time since 1916.
Stroud was sent to prison in 1909 after he killed a bartender. He had nearly completed his sentence at Leavenworth Federal Prison in Kansas when he stabbed a guard to death in 1916.
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