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Crescent City Super 8 Motel
49 spacious rooms in a quiet, relaxed setting, some with harbor views. Walk across the street to explore the piers and interact with one of the coasts largest active fishing fleets.

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Pelican Bay State Prison
California Department of Corrections
5905 Lake Earl Drive, P.O. Box 7000, Crescent City, CA 95531; 707-465-1000; Prison Website;
Located six miles north of Crescent City. This Prison (PBSP) is designed to house California’s most serious criminal offenders in a secure, safe, and disciplined institutional setting. One half of the prison houses maximum security inmates in a general population setting. The other half houses inmates in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) designed for inmates presenting serious management concerns. The Psychiatric Services Unit (PSU) which is a 127 bed unit designed and staffed to treat mentally disordered offenders who are serving SHU terms, as well as the Transitional Housing Unit (THU) which is a 40 bed unit designed to reintegrate prison gang members back into the general population. PBSP also operates a 400 bed, Level I Minimum Support Facility which houses non-violent offenders outside of the secure perimeter of the main institution, and a Fire House with 8 full time inmate fire fighters.