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The California Institution for Men (CIM), Chino, had its fifty-year anniversary on 06/21/1991; the prison covers 2,500 acres; Chino was California's third state prison and the country's first facility for minimum-security prisoners; it was an experiment in prison design, unique for being a "prison without walls." In 2009, CIM was composed of four parts: Minimum Support Facility (MSF) which housed about 2,000 minimum custody prisoners; the MSF originally started out as the state's experimental "prison without walls." Reception Center Central (RCC) opened in 1951, a 1400-bed unit that housed felons from Southern California counties, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino as well as the Pitchess Detention Center; Reception Center East (RCE) a medium/maximum security unit for 1400 felons with special medical or mental requirements; the RCE was brought into the California Youth Authority system in 1970; the RCE included the Inmate Infirmary and Mental Health Crisis Beds, a mental health clinic as well as an "Enhanced Out-Patient" section with 100 beds; Reception Center West (RCW) opened in 1960, a 1400-bed unit composed of 8 dormitories; RCW housed medium security prisoners to be processed and/or transferred to other institutions. In 2005, CIM cumulatively held about 6,298 beds, and had the same number in 2009; In 2009, Mike Poulos served as Warden for the CIM.

Additions were made to the Chino facility in 1951 and 1960.

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