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
Inmate Name
Register Number
Status
Details
Juan Manuel Alvarez
G33008
Serving 11 life sentences without the possibility of parole.[3]
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]