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3 unusual facts about California Institution for Men


California Institution for Men

In The Simpsons episode Day of the Jackanapes, Sideshow Bob is in prison watching television when a guard states "lights out." Sideshow Bob states that, "At Chino, they get to stay up 'til nine".

In Crysis 2, the player character is a member of a US Marine squad whose members are all codenamed after US prisons.

The Mountain Goats song "Pigs That Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph of" references the prison facility with the lyrics "I come from Chino, so all your threats are empty", "Please don't fit me with that orange jumpsuit" and "please don't send me back to where I came from Chino."



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