APRIL 1, 2011
Last island prison in U.S. closes
By Patrick Oppmann, CNN
April 1, 2011 1:50 p.m. EDT
After 135 years, Friday will be closing time at McNeil Island– and the water off its shores will no longer be needed to deter escaping prisoners…
Charles Manson served just under five years at McNeil in the 1960s. Not long after he left McNeil, he gained infamy for leading the “Manson Family” whose random, brutal killings terrorized California in the late ’60s.
But at McNeil, Manson was merely a small-time car thief.
Prison records show Manson left little impression at McNeil other than performing with the prison band and painting a large crimson red pentagram on the floor of his cell.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/01/last.prison.island.closes/index.html?hpt=C1
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