California Institution for Men

California Institution for Men is a male-only state prison located in the city of Chino, San Bernardino County, California. It is often colloquially referenced as "Chino". In turn, locals call the prison "Chino Men's" or just "Men's" to avoid confusion with the city itself.FacilitiesCIM is a 2500acre facility located east of Los Angeles on arid farmland. Facilities include: "The largest Level I inmate population within the California prison system" ("Level I" referring to "open dormitories without a secure perimeter"). Three Reception Centers (RCs) which "provide short term housing to process, classify and evaluate incoming inmates." Reception Center Central for medium/maximum custody level inmates "receives intake from several southern California counties"; Reception Center East "houses RC inmates with sensitive needs, Mental Health inmate/patients requiring an Enhanced Out-Patient level of care and a 100 bed HIV/CID unit"; and Reception Center West is for "medium level custody inmates" who are "waiting processing/transfer to programming institutions."The counties served by Reception Center Central include Orange County, Riverside County, San Diego County and San Bernardino County. It also serves prisoners transferred form the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, Los Angeles County. As of Fiscal Year 2006/2007, CIM had 2,327 staff and an annual budget of $232.2 million. As of February, 2012 it had a design capacity of 2,976 but a total institution population of 5,266, for an occupancy rate of 177 percent.