Kern Valley State Prison
Kern Valley State Prison 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.
As of July 31, 2022, Kern Valley was incarcerating people at 118.7% of its design capacity, with 2,907 occupants.
Notable inmates
| Inmate Name | Register Number | Status | Details |
| Juan Manuel Alvarez | G33008 | Serving 11 life sentences without the possibility of parole. 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. |
| Antron Singleton | V24953 | Serving a life sentence. | American rapper who went by the name "Big Lurch" who was convicted of murdering and committing cannibalism on his roommate. |