Charles Manson: Corcoran State Prison

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Charles Manson was born November 12, 1934 and is currently still alive spending time in the Corcoran State Prison in California. His mom was 16 when she had him, and was an alcoholic and prostitute. Charles was sent to a boy's school for stealing. His mother didn’t want anything to do with him. She once sold him for some beer. A couple days later his uncle retrieved him. He was living on the streets and committing petty crimes. Manson began spending time in jail by his teenage years. Eventually he would spend half of the first 32 years in jail

From 1958 and on, Manson spend time in and out of jail for different offenses. Some of those were pimping, and passing stolen checks. He was sent to Mcneil Island Prison for 10 years. While in there

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