Why is Charles Manson in prison?
Honey – he NEEDS to be behind bars…..forever. Charles Manson was abandoned as a child and eventually found himself within public institutions. Beginning at the age of nine he was caught in a series of petty crimes and sent to boys schools and reformatories. One early teacher said little Charlie “did good work only when he…figured he could obtain something.” He was tested and found to have an IQ of 109, but a psychiatrist concluded he would one day become a “fairly slick institutionalized youth.” Later Manson raped another boy, while holding a razor to his throat. He spent the 50s and 60s largely locked up, with the exception of brief paroles, which were always broken. He pursued Scientology and Buddhism, but was obsessed with the Beatles. In 1967 at the age of 32 Charles Manson was released from prison for the last time. He said, “Oh, no, I can’t go outside…I couldn’t adjust to that world.” Those words proved to be tragically prophetic. The Family” (a.k.a. the Manson Family, the
