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Thomas E. Gaddis

Birdman of Alcatraz Illustration

THE BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ

There is a man in Alcatraz who has been in isolation for thirty-seven years. This is probably longer than any other Federal prisoner has ever been kept in isolation. Steel doors shut behind Robert Stroud in 1909. Prison, in the Arabian phrase, is engraved on his eyeballs.

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