Kern Valley State Prison

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.

Kern Valley State Prison (KVSP)

KVSP overhead view
Location	Delano, California
Coordinates	35.7661°N 119.3251°W / 35.7661; -119.3251
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

As of July 31, 2022, Kern Valley was incarcerating people at 118.7% of its design capacity, with 2,907 occupants.^[2]

Location of Delano in Kern County, and Kern County in California

Notable inmates

KVSP during a foggy winter morning

Inmate Name	Register Number	Status	Details
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

• List of California state prisons