<Tr> <Th> Managed by </Th> <Td> California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Warden </Th> <Td> James Robertson </Td> </Tr> <P> Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) is the only supermax state prison in California . The 275 acre prison is located in Del Norte County, California . The prison takes its name from a shallow bay on the Pacific coast, about 2 miles (3 km) to the west . The prison lies in a detached section of Crescent City, several miles north of the main urban area and just south of the Oregon border . PBSP's primary purpose is to house the "worst of the worst" violent male prisoners from the California state prison system; 40% of Pelican State's inmates are serving life sentences and nearly all have histories of violence at other California prisons which resulted in their transfer to Pelican Bay . The sole exception are the institution's minimum security inmates who work as part of the prison's outside maintenance and firefighter programs . </P> <P> Cellblocks C and D at Pelican Bay are the dedicated long - term Security Housing Units (SHU), designed to control the most intractably violent prisoners by keeping them in rigorously - monitored solitary confinement 22 hours a day, 7 days a week (often for years or decades at a time). In addition to the supermax population, Pelican Bay also houses two maximum security units: Block A is a traditional semi-open general population (GP) unit with 2 - man cells while Block B is smaller, closed / single cell block that serves as a transitional unit for inmates transferring out of the SHU blocks due to good behavior . There is also a collocated 400 - bed minimum security unit (outside of the secure perimeter) which provides inmate orderlies for general service tasks at and around the main prison . </P>

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