ALDERSON, W.Va., Dec. 3 – Charles Manson follower Sandra Good was released Monday from prison after serving nearly 10 years for conspiring to send death threats to corporate officials.

Good, 41, left the Federal Correctional Center For Women here at 7 a.m., bound for a supervised group home. Prison officials declined to identify the home’s location but Rep. Vic Fazio, D-Calif., said Good will begin her five years on parole in a New England village.

Good asked her destination be kept secret, said David Helman, executive assistant to the warden.

“If the inmate chooses to do that, that’s her prerogative,” Helman said. “She told me that if there were any press inquiring she didn’t want to speak with them.”

Good still professes total allegiance to Manson, who is serving a life sentence for the 1969 cult killings of actress Sharon Tate and eight others. In March, she had rejected terms of a release agreement calling for her to go to a halfway house in New Jersey, saying if she could not be with Manson she did not want to leave prison.

Prison officials, who described Good as a model inmate, said they had no choice but to reschedule her release because of her accumulated “good time” at Alderson.

The terms of Good’s probation prohibit her from having any contact with Manson, Fazio said.

“The conditions of her parole are very explicit,” he said in a statement issued from his Washington office. “She will not be permitted to travel beyond 50 miles of her boarding house without the explicit permission of the parole commission and she will he forbidden to associate with any of the Manson family.

“Good will not be coming to California,” he added.

Fazio wrote U.S. Parole Commission Chairman Benjamin Baer on July 25 urging Good not be paroled to Northern California, which she had consistently requested in the past.

Prosecutors said Good was not connected to the Tate murders, but she was given a 15-year prison sentence in Sacramento for conspiring to mail death threats to corporate officials she accused of polluting the earth.

She and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, another Manson follower who was convicted of pointing a pistol at former President Gerald Ford, worked together at the prison as groundskeepers.

Helman said Good’s living arrangement while on probation has been approved by federal parole officers. “She is living in a group arrangement,” he said. “It is common for releasees who have no family ties. The parole commission would not release her without some type of structured living arrangement.”

When Good was scheduled to be released last spring, she sought interviews with reporters and said she did not want to leave prison.

“It’s not that I’m institutionalized,” Good said at the time. “It’s just that I want to be where my family is, and my family is in prison.”

This time, however, she agreed to the terms of her release, Helman said.