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Last island prison in U.S. closes
McNeil Island, Washington (CNN) -- For over a century the picturesque waters around McNeil Island had a job to do: they kept the inmates in.
Convicted criminals arriving at "the prison without walls" soon found out that attempting to swim the three miles through the frigid Puget Sound was a death sentence.
But after 135 years, Friday will be closing time at McNeil -- and the water off its shores will no longer be needed to deter escaping prisoners.
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Charles Manson served just under five years at McNeil in the 1960s. Not long after he left McNeil, he gained infamy for leading the "Manson Family" whose random, brutal killings terrorized California in the late '60s.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/01/last.prison.island.closes/index.html?hpt=C1
its good that our prisons are so secure we don't need islands to make them more secure.
footnote: ran into a colleague a few years ago and he told me manson is housed at california men's colony. look it up and you will shat yourself.
McNeil Island, Washington (CNN) -- For over a century the picturesque waters around McNeil Island had a job to do: they kept the inmates in.
Convicted criminals arriving at "the prison without walls" soon found out that attempting to swim the three miles through the frigid Puget Sound was a death sentence.
But after 135 years, Friday will be closing time at McNeil -- and the water off its shores will no longer be needed to deter escaping prisoners.
...
Charles Manson served just under five years at McNeil in the 1960s. Not long after he left McNeil, he gained infamy for leading the "Manson Family" whose random, brutal killings terrorized California in the late '60s.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/01/last.prison.island.closes/index.html?hpt=C1
its good that our prisons are so secure we don't need islands to make them more secure.
footnote: ran into a colleague a few years ago and he told me manson is housed at california men's colony. look it up and you will shat yourself.