Charles Manson

MANSON'S ADDRESS:

Charles Manson, B-33920

4A 3R 14L

P. O. Box 3476

Corcoran, CA 93212

Charlie gets a ton of mail and can only answer a small fraction of it so don't feel bad if you don't get a letter in response to what you write. Send some good energy out to Charlie! The people who run the prisons are jealous of the positive support which Manson gets from his friends and will do anything to discourage it, and in doing so, try to make Manson feel like he has no friends.

When you write to Manson....

DO: Be yourself; don't say things because you think it's what Manson wants to hear. If you can, send him postage paid envelopes (printed, not holographic). Include your return address within the letter itself.

DON'T: Do not send books, magazines, stamps, cash, posters, polaroid photos. Also, don't send clothing, cassette tapes, CDs, pens or pencils. If in doubt, don't send it - he probably won't get it.

This "do's & don't" list is NOT complete or definitive.

The prison is playing all sorts of games with Manson's mail. For more information, call the Corcoran Prison Mail Room at 209-992-8800 x7759.

Susan Atkins, (died of brain cancer in 2009), Patricia Krenwinkle, Leslie Van Houten, Charles 'Tex' Watson and of course Charles Manson.

*Bobby Beausoleil was arrested prior to the above family members for the murder of music teacher Gary Hinman. Hinman's murder preceeded the Tate-LaBianca killings by several weeks and was initially not associated with other Manson family murders.

All of the above mentioned Manson family members have requested parole numerous times and all attempts have been refused by the California Parole Board.

As a matter of fact, Manson was already in jail when Susan Atkins confessed to her cellmates the Family's role in the Tate-La Bianca murders. Charlie was locked up in Independence* for unrelated charges. It was just a matter bringing him back to Los Angeles where he was formally charged with seven counts of first degree murder.

*Independence is in Inyo county, northeast of LA.

I could find no record of it.

Murder is not a feredal crime but a state crime and Lompoc is a federal prison so it is not possible for him to serve in that prison.

At last count 12. There have been several where he has not showed up. One time he refused to go unless he could go without handcuffs. That was nixed by guards so he refused to go. I doubt it would have made any difference, his chances of walking again as a free man are zip.

I could find no record of Manson ever being an inmate of Leavenworth Federal Prison.

Although Manson was not present he was still guilty of ordering the murders of actress Sharon Tate and her friends. Charles 'Tex' Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkle and Linda Kasabian* went to Tate's rented house, killing all but the grounds keeper who lived in the guest cottage.

*Kasabian was the only on that didn't commit murder, in fact was only included because she was the only Family member that carried a valid driver's licence. At the trial Kasabian testified against the others and was granted immunity.

It seems to me that you must know what the difference is, and what you are really asking is, does life imprisonment really offer any advantage over being put to death? Is there any reason to live if you will never get out of prison? That is largely a matter of personal judgment. I am sure that there are many people spending their lives in prison who really have no good reason to be alive and who are accomplishing nothing with their lives. However that is not true of everyone. Some people write books, even important books, while in prison. Charles Manson has actually released a record album from jail. And of course, not everyone sentenced to life in prison will actually remain in prison for their whole lives. Some people are paroled or pardoned.

Prisoners can also perform acts of kindness or acts of education for other prisoners, if they are not in solitary confinement. Creative people find something good to do, in almost any circumstance. Less creative people don't.

Charles Manson was born to an unmarried 16-year-old named Kathleen Maddox in Cincinnati General Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Highly unlikely. Manson and Atkins had a 'master/slave' relationship. This type of relationship rules out any type of normal pair bonding. Furthermore, Manson is unable love another human due to his personality disorder.

Rotting in Prison.

Manson has a very diminished existance. He stays in solitary confinement for his own protection. Does almost no socializing, has no family to speak of, and seems to lose a little more of himself everyday.

He does enjoy a small amount of infamy, but I doubt it goes far. In his mid 70s, instead of getting mellow like most people do with age, Manson seems to grow more caustic with each passing day. In his speech he rambles endlessly and can talk for hours and not be understood as to the point he was trying to make. He has for the most part given up going to his parole hearings, so he lives without hope too. That has to be his worst punishment.

Charles Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Hi's mother had run away from home at the age of 15 and spent the next few decades drinking too much, with periods of time spent in jail. Since his mother couldn't take care of him, Charles spent his youth at the homes of various relatives and often at special reform schools and boys homes.

National Training School for Boys in Washington, D.C., Indianapolis juvenile center, Indiana School for Boys and Gibault School for Boys were some of the boys home he was put in his early life. Then he landed in jail several times before the killings including Natural Bridge Honor Camp, a minimum security institution, Federal Reformatory, Petersburg, Virginia, Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio and Terminal Island, San Pedro, California.

Charles Manson is still being held in disciplinary custody in the California State Prison-Corcoran's Security Housing Unit .

Mac Charlie
He used to refer to himself as Jesus Christ.

Manson, a madman if there ever was one, hoped the mad, random nature of the killing, which was meticulously planned, might set off a cyclone of racial hostility breeding race riots, etc. this he refered to with the somewhat childish slang term Helter-Skelter. This is a British compound adjective meaning essentially- Chaotic.

No he did not. Charles Manson is a mass manipulator and could also be consider a Cult Leader to some extent. He provided the weapons drugs, vehicle and picked out the people that he wanted killed, but there is no evidence that he ever physically killed anyone himself. He killed your Mum

The Family lived in a variety of places. The genesis of the clan was the Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. They migrated south and moved around being everywhere and nowhere. Before moving to Spahn's Movie Ranch, Manson and some of the girls were camped out in Dennis Wilson's house in Malibu.

Manson, who was a frustrated musician, expected Wilson (member of the Beach Boys) to put him in touch with the right people that would make him a star. Terry Melcher, Doris Day's son, was a record producer and he did listen to some of Manson's songs, but they failed to impress and Melcher took a pass. This enraged Manson and he took it out on Wilson.

Manson and the Family were the houseguests from Hell. Wilson had a hard time ridding himself of the human barnicles and he finally abandoned his beach front home and moved elsewhere. That move may have saved his life.

At the time of his arrest in 1969 Manson had already spent half of his life incarcerated in one institution or another. His criminal career started when he was still a single-digit age. He even spent some time at the famous BoysTown, but he kept running away and all told spent just days at the Colorado reform school. Unfortunately, he never seemed to learn from his mistakes and by the time he entered his teens he was virtually 'non reformable'.

As far as anybody knows, Manson's murders were mainly on the West coast, mostly in Southern California. Manson and his followers wandered up and down the west coast from below L.A. to Washington state. There are always unsolved murders and missing persons that are never found, so who knows. You can't hang a man on speculation.

He was convicted of seven murders but he claims to have killed many more. Police are still trying to find victim's bodies in the Los Angeles area.

Charles Manson started attracting followers that were transfixed or mesmerized by his teachings of freedom and having an open society. These followers were mostly women who were searching for affection and meaning during the age of flower power.

Manson was able to manipulate his followers to believe he was of a higher power and groomed his hair and beard to resemble God. Manson would control his family by subjecting them to drugs such as LSD and having them participate in orgies so they could release there sexual inhibitions. The family included the following:

Leslie Van Houten, Mary Brunner, Lynette Fromme, Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian

Patricia Krenwinkel, Bobby Beausoliel, Steve "Clem" Grogan and Charles "Tex" Cobb. Over the next two years, Manson continued with his teaching of forming a free society. During this time, Manson started to exert his power on members of the family by having them participate in sexual acts in front of all the family members, to display their loyalty to him. One request Manson had made to Bobby Beasoliel a family member that Mason befriended in prison, was to kill one of Manson's friends, a musician that he suspected of having a large sum of money at his home. Mason instructed two other family members Brunner and Atkins to accompany Beasoliel and help carry out this request. After killing the musician, the family under Manson's instruction tried to make the killing resemble that of the Black Panthers.

No one other than her likely knows. All that is known about her is that she used the pseudonym Candy Stevens in her job as a prostitute, and all that is known about her is that she married him after managing to get him released from a check fraud charge, and that her potential real first name is Leona.

The major players have not, with the exception of Susan Atkins who died in 2009 from a brain tumor. Atkins left in a pine box. Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme, would-be assassin of President Ford was finally paroled. Manson, Charles 'Tex' Watson, Patricia Krenwinkle, Leslie Van Houten are still in prison, all have tried for parole many times with no success.

Cult leader and convicted killer Charles Manson was 83 years old when he died on November 19, 2017 (birthdate: November 12, 1934). He was sentenced to death in 1971 but with the abolishment of the death penalty in California, he became eligible for parole. He died after his first 12 applications were denied.

That is a huge understatement. Through no fault of his own, he had one of the worst childhoods in history. Neglected, abused and eventually thrown away by his own mother, Manson is the posterchild of bad childhoods. Arrested for the first time at the age of nine, Manson, very early on, lied, stole, assaulted others, stated fires, ran wild and spent most of this young life in juvenile facilities. The warning signs were everywhere.

Not really. If he can't control them he has no use for them. And prison officials try to discourage friendships between co-conspirators. Manson has many restrictions, most for his own safety. He is kept in solitary confinement, again for his own safety and really hasn't had anything new to talk about since his transfere from San Quentin. He rants and rambles on, making intelligent conversation all but impossible.

Within months of sentencing the three women (Krenwinkle, Van Houten, Atkins) were shocked to realize that Manson was such a liar. From their cells word got back to them that Manson had denied he ordered the murders, and claimed they acted on their own. The waste of young lives (victims and killers) still seems so tragic even after almost half a century.