Seeking prisoner records for Ronald Rideout

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Found death certificate for Ronald Leroy Rideout on familysearch.org. family search is a free website, you

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He had been at McNeil for 8 months prior to his death.

Alice Lane

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Ronald Leroy Rideout, "Washington Death Certificates, 1907-1960" — FamilySearch.org

Dear Ms. Clark,

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We searched the National Archives Catalog and located 6 series in the Records of the Bureau of Prisons (Record Group 129) that contain information about inmates of the United States Penitentiary at McNeil Island, WA during the 1950s.  Some of these items are digitized and available via the Catalog.  For access to the non-digitized records in these series, please contact the National Archives at Seattle (RW-SE) via email at seattle.archives@nara.gov.

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