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Manson, 82, was seriously ill, a source told the Los Angeles
Times, but could not provide further information. TMZ reported
that Manson was transported to a hospital in Bakersfield,
California, about an hour from California State Prison in
Corcoran, where he was being held.
A California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
spokesman declined to comment to Reuters, citing inmate medical
privacy issues.
In the 1960s, Manson, a charismatic ex-convict, assembled a
group of runaways and outcasts known as the "Manson Family." In
the summer of 1969, he directed his mostly young, female
followers to murder seven people in what prosecutors said was
part of a plan to incite a race war.
Members of the cult stabbed heavily pregnant Hollywood actress
Sharon Tate 16 times in the early-morning hours of Aug. 9, 1969.
Manson's followers stabbed or shot to death four other people at
Tate's home.
The following night, Manson's group entered the nearby home of
grocery store chain owner Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary,
stabbed the couple to death and used their blood to write
"Rise," "Death to Pigs," and "Healter Skelter," a misplaced
reference to the Beatles song "Helter Skelter," on the walls and
refrigerator door.
Manson was originally sentenced to death but was spared
execution and his sentence converted to life in prison after the
California Supreme Court declared the death penalty
unconstitutional in that state.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb and Ben Klayman; Editing by Chris
Reese and Jonathan Oatis)
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