Danny Masterson moved to maximum-security prison that once housed Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan

Danny Masterson has been moved to a maximum-security prison that previously housed several infamous inmates including Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, and Rodney Alcala. 

A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed to EW that the former That ‘70s Show actor, who was sentenced 30 years to life for raping two women, was transferred to Corcoran State Prison in California’s Central San Joaquin Valley on Jan. 29.

The male-only state facility, which opened in 1988, was the stomping grounds for Manson, a criminal and Manson Family cult leader, who lived there from 1989 until his death in 2017. It also housed the notorious "dating game" serial killer Alcala, who died in 2021, and was the temporary residence of Sirhan, who assassinated senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, on two separate occasions over the years.

Masterson, who was previously being held at the Los Angeles County jail and then North Kern State Prison, was found guilty on two counts of rape in a May 2023 retrial and was subsequently sentenced to 30 years to life that September. He will be eligible for parole at age 66 in July 2042, according to California state prison records.

Last week, Masterson’s request for bail was denied by a judge, who described him as a flight risk. In her order, which was reported by Deadline, Judge Charlaine Olmedo wrote that the Ranch star “has every incentive to flee and little reason to return to state prison to serve out the remainder of his lengthy sentence should his appeal be unsuccessful.”

The judge added that Masterson’s ongoing divorce proceedings from actress Bijou Phillips may be another reason for him to flee, writing that the “defendant has no wife to go home to.”

Masterson’s lawyers, Clifford Gardner and Eric Multhaup, said in their appeal that the actor offered “to comply with any relevant terms and conditions imposed by the Court that enable him to be an at-home parent and financial provider for his family, including house arrest and/or participation in an electronic monitoring program administered by the probation department.”

Masterson and Phillips share a 9-year-old daughter, who has subsequently been placed in Phillips’ full custody, PEOPLE reports. 

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