California Rehabilitation Center (Norco, California)

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General Information:
5th Street & Western
Norco, CA 92860

The California Rehabilitation Center is a medium Level II correctional facility with a design capacity of approx 4000 prisoners but has approx 6000.

The building now housing California Rehabilitation Center opened in 1928 as the Lake Norconian Club, a luxury hotel. In December 1941, President F. D. Roosevelt turned the resort into a Naval hospital. The hospital first closed in November 1949, reopened in 1950 during the Korean War, then closed again in June 1957. In March 1962, the federal government donated the facility to the state to use as a narcotics center. To help ease overcrowding in the 1980s, CRC began housing felons as well as civil narcotic addicts.

www.cdcr.ca.gov/Visitors/Facilities/CRC.html