Re The Vacaville plane that had the UNITY callsign. That is a very dangerous place, the medical facility. That is where they keep the criminally insane violent criminals.
Re: Unity call sign from California Medical Facility plane.
NOTABLE INMATES AT CMF:
Bobby Beausoleil, former associate of the Charles Manson "Family" who is serving a life sentence for the murder of music teacher and associate Gary Hinman on July 27, 1969.
Juan Corona spent "part of his time" after his first (1973) conviction at CMF.[16]
Richard Allen Davis was at CMF twice. In 1974, after being arrested for burglary, he was sent to CMF "for a 90-day diagnostic study."[17] He was also sentenced to spend six years in CMF for a separate burglary beginning August 1975, but was "paroled a year later."[18]
Jim Gordon In 1983, he attacked his 72-year-old mother, Osa Marie Gordon, with a hammer before fatally stabbing her with a butcher knife; he claimed that a voice told him to kill her.
Edmund Kemper is a current inmate who was incarcerated "a short time after" his 1972-1973 murders.[16] He voluntarily denied himself parole in July 2007, July 2012 and again in July 2017. On these occasions, he told the parole board he was not fit to return to society.[19]
Timothy Leary served time at CMF in 1973-1974 "for possession of marijuana and escape from a minimum security prison at San Luis Obispo [i.e., California Men's Colony ]".[20][21]
Charles Manson was transferred from Folsom State Prison to CMF in March 1974 based on "deterioration of his mental condition";[22] he was returned to Folsom in October 1974.[23] He was again transferred to CMF in May 1976[24] where he stayed for over nine years, which was noted as a special favor by prison counselor and friend Edward George.[22] While at CMF Manson gave his first notable interview on June 13, 1981 to Tom Snyder for NBC's The Tomorrow Show.[25][26][27] In September 1984, "following a dispute about… Hare Krishna religious chanting," a fellow inmate "doused [Manson] with paint thinner and set [him] afire," causing "second-and third-degree burns on the head, face and hands."[28] Manson was transferred to San Quentin State Prison in July 1985.[29] Recordings made by Manson at the facility during 1983-4 were released on a vinyl LP by Ben Gurecki in 2013.[30]
Theodore Streleski was released unconditionally from CMF in September 1985 after 7 years and 20 days there.[31]
Kenneth Parnell, convicted of the 1972 kidnapping of seven-year-old Steven Stayner, died there in 2008.[32]
Edgar Smith, a murderer who once duped William F. Buckley into championing his cause, was incarcerated at CMF for the last few years of his life, dying there in 2017.
William ‘Bill’ T. Bradford - Former aerospace engineer with TRW (now Northrop Grumman) who murdered his wife in 1988. Was sentenced to 26 years to life, but was paroled after serving 15.
Catholic Bishops in Ireland are distraught.