Manson back at Central California prison after hospital stay

Foto de Charles Manson, el notorio líder de una secta que perpetró una masacre en una mansión en California en 1969, tomada el 8 de octubre del 2014. Según reportes, Manson fue sacado de su celda carcelaria y llevado al hospital el 3 de enero del 2017. Foto suministrada por el Departamento Penitenciario de California. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP, File) Foto de Charles Manson, el notorio líder de una secta que perpetró una masacre en una mansión en California en 1969, tomada el 8 de octubre del 2014. Según reportes, Manson fue sacado de su celda carcelaria y llevado al hospital el 3 de enero del 2017. Foto suministrada por el Departamento Penitenciario de California. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP, File)

By Associated Press January 7, 2017 2 min read

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) – Cult leader Charles Manson is back in a Central California prison after a reported hospital stay for an unspecified medical problem.

Manson, 82, was at California State Prison, Corcoran as of Saturday, said Jeffrey Callison, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

“We never stated he was anywhere else,” Callison said in an email. “Medical privacy laws do not allow (the department) to discuss inmates’ medical issues, if any.”

The department has declined to comment on reports from TMZ.com and the Los Angeles Times that earlier in the week Manson was taken to a hospital in Bakersfield, 60 miles south of the prison.

While the prison has medical facilities, California prisoners generally are sent to outside hospitals if they need “surgical services, emergency care, or diagnostic services of an acute nature,” Joyce Hayhoe, a spokeswoman for the federal receiver who controls prison medical care, said Tuesday.