Record
Finding aid
1942-12-19/1959-07-15
National Archives Catalog
Robert Stroud's Alcatraz inmate case file, No. 594 (National Archives catalog entry)
Catalog entry for the Alcatraz case file of register no. 594, about 16,500 pages, not digitized. The description gives receipt from Leavenworth on 19 December 1942 and a 1959 transfer whose destination conflicts with the Bureau of Prisons' account.
- Date
- 1942-12-19/1959-07-15
- Kind
- finding-aid
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 117696972
- Rights
- A catalog description of a Bureau of Prisons inmate case file (Record Group 129), a United States government record, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The catalog marks the file unit use and access "Unrestricted"; the parent series (NAID 622809) is marked "Restricted - Possibly" for copyright (newspaper clippings) and privacy, so the contents of a file need a page-by-page check.
The catalog title is “STROUD, ROBERT FRANKLIN - Alcatraz Number 594.” The file unit belongs to the series Comprehensive Case Files of Former Inmates Incarcerated at U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California, in the Records of the Bureau of Prisons at the National Archives at San Francisco. The catalog gives the size as “ca. 16,500 pp.” and lists no digitized pages, so the pages themselves have not been read for this archive; the page count is NARA’s estimate.
The catalog description gives these fields: offense “MURDER, FIRST DEGREE [CORRECTIONAL OFFICER AT LEAV” (truncated in the catalog); received at Alcatraz 12/19/1942; transferred 07/15/1959 to “US PENITENTIARY, HAZELTON” as printed; birth date 01/28/1890; death 11/21/1963 at Springfield, Missouri (MCFP). Those are the catalog’s entries, not readings of the file.
The Bureau of Prisons’ Alcatraz page says that in 1959 Stroud was transferred to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners at Springfield, Missouri, where he died on 21 November 1963. The catalog’s “Hazelton” destination differs; this archive records both and does not choose. His earlier Leavenworth file is a separate record.
