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Manson, 83, was in a Bakersfield, California hospital and his
condition was unclear, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing
Kern County Sheriff’s lieutenant Bill Smallwood.
A spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation declined to comment to the Los Angeles Times. She
cited privacy laws that preclude the agency "from commenting on
protected health information for any inmate in our custody," the
newspaper reported.
State and local officials were not immediately available for
comment to Reuters.
Manson, who was serving a life term for orchestrating one of the
most notorious crimes in U.S. history, had been imprisoned for
more than 45 years at California State Prison, Corcoran.
In the 1960s, Manson, an 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.
Among the victims was actress Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of
filmmaker Roman Polanski. She was stabbed 16 times by cult
members.
Manson was rushed to Mercy Hospital in Bakersfield in January
for what authorities described only as a serious medical
problem, the Los Angeles Times reported.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Nick
Macfie)
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