Kern Valley State Prison
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| Location | Delano, California |
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| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Maximum |
| Capacity | 2,448 |
| Population | 2,431 (99.3% capacity) (as of January 31, 2023[1]) |
| Opened | June 2005 |
| Managed by | California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
| Warden | Christian Pfeiffer |
Kern Valley State Prison (KVSP) is a male-only state prison in Delano, California. Kern Valley is a Level IV Maximum Security institution, opened in June 2005 with a design capacity of 2,448 inmates. The facility is adjacent to North Kern State Prison and has an annual operating budget of US$123 million.
As of July 31, 2022, Kern Valley was incarcerating people at 118.7% of its design capacity, with 2,907 occupants.[2]
Notable inmates
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| Inmate Name | Register Number | Status | Details |
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| Juan Manuel Alvarez | G33008 | Serving 11 life sentences without the possibility of parole.[3] Transferred to Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. | Perpetrator of the 2005 Glendale train crash in which he intentionally left his car on the railroad track, and a passenger train proceeded to collide with it, causing a derailment which killed 11 people.[4][5][6][7][8] |
| Antron Singleton | V24953 | Serving a life sentence.[9] | American rapper who went by the name "Big Lurch" who was convicted of murdering and committing cannibalism on his roommate.[10][11] |
See also
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