This could be Michael Jackson's new home

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CORCORAN, Calif. — If Michael Jackson is acquitted of child molestation and related charges, he'll probably return home to his whimsical Neverland ranch in Santa Barbara County.



But if he is convicted of any of the 10 felony counts against him, he will probably land in the most secure prison unit in California, designed to protect famous convicts from attack by other inmates, prison officials say.

Corcoran State Prison is set in the middle of America's richest cotton fields, about 50 miles south of Fresno.

Its Protective Housing Unit is considered the safest place for an inmate in the California prison system, and therefore the home for mass murderers such as Charles Manson and Juan Corona — and any inmate whose notoriety would make him a trophy for other inmates, Corrections Department spokeswoman Terry Thornton said.

The special housing unit at Corcoran is a strange prison within a prison, where some of the nation's most infamous criminals and gang turncoats rub elbows, play board games and devise elaborate legal strategies they hope can one day set them free.

Those who were once fearsome criminals, however, are largely defanged inside this weird setting known as the PHU, opened in 1992. Although former guards and inmates assigned to the unit agree it is safe, they say it requires a high degree of wariness and guile to survive.

Counting Manson and Corona, 20 inmates are living in the unit at the far rear of the sprawling facility, surrounded by miles of San Joaquin Valley farmland.


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I know that the whole Michael Jackson deal should be over (and most don't care) but I though this was a rather intresting article because I had never heard of the place and I always wondered how do they take care of Manson.

[DrDebug]

1. LMAO. So Charles Manson is going to be his neighbor

Sorry. I shouldn't laugh :rofl: No, really I shouldn't :rofl: It's not nice :rofl:

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3. I know I laughed my ass off too

THe article says that Charlie plays guitar. Maybe the two of them can lay down some tracks.

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4. I thought the same thing.

MJ can teach Charlie some slick dance moves.

Then when Jacko gets out of prison he'll record an album of Charlie's songs.

[CottonBear]

2. Yikes. MJ and Manson imprisoned together is a disturbing thought.

:(

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5. I don't think it would be likely for him to go there

About the only way to wind up in the SHU (Secured Housing Unit) is to be convicted of incredibly violent crimes or for something really nasty you may have done while incarcerated at one of CA's other wonderful facilities (beating/killing another inmate or CO, gang ties, etc.). Each prison has an administrative segregation unit (AdSeg). That's probably where he'd go along with the other child molestors.

I've been thru the SHU at Corcoran and Pelican Bay (I worked for CDC-HQ) and passed by Manson's cell. All I saw was his back, and to this day thinking about that still creeps me out. Corona just looked like an old man.