Has anybody ever invented anything in prison and become successful?
Well, Dillinger invented the gun carved from soap and painted with shoe polish and used it in a successful escape. But I don’t think that’s what you meant. The game of squash was supposedly invented in an English prison in the late 1700’s or early 1800’s the game became a success but no specific prironer did. But that probably aint it either. The closest I could find, and it depends on your definition of invention and success is Robert Stroud the so called Birdman of Alcatraz. During his over 50 years in Federal prisons, mostly Leavenworth, not Alcatraz, he did develop some specific and effective cures for several diseases of birds; as well as identifying some diseases and writing ground breaking books on the subject; as well as becoming a world wide acknowledged expert in various areas of ornithology. As far as success goes, the business of selling the medicines did support his mother at a level well above the usual Depression Era condition. Then the feds enforced a little used regula
