California Prison Officials Explain Manson Illness Secrecy

(Undated)  —  California prison officials say Charles Manson died from natural causes.

State and federal medical privacy laws prevent officials from saying exactly why Manson was hospitalized.

The 83-year-old Manson died last night at a hospital in Bakersfield, California. He’d been brought to the hospital from a state prison an hour away last week. Manson was hospitalized in January for what sources said was a serious illness.

Manson was serving a life sentence for directing the murders of actress Sharon Tate and six other people in 1969.

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