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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 ...
FSP is the only California State Prison currently housing men and women. High Desert State Prison: HDSP Lassen: 1995 Yes 2,324 3,286 141.4% Ironwood State Prison: ISP Riverside: 1994 Yes 2,200 3,203 145.6% Kern Valley State Prison: KVSP Kern: 2005 2,448 3,534 144.4% Mule Creek State Prison: MCSP Amador: 1987 3,284 3,948 120.2% North Kern State ...
See Capital punishment in California for a full history. 1976 Senate Bill 42, Uniform Determinate Sentencing Act of 1976: The introduction of determinate sentencing and subsequent increases in prison sentence lengths was the largest driver in a nearly 900% increase in California's prison population over the next 3 decades. [9] 1994
A grinder and a backup sewage system were installed a few years after the prison opened to crush the excess trash and help the sewage system run more efficiently. Three fences surround North Kern: two razor wire fences with an electric fence in the middle. [2] Several towers are stationed around the prison to reinforce the fence line.
After the 1952 Kern County earthquake on July 21, "made the brick dormitories unsafe", the institution was closed and the 417 prisoners were sent to the new California Institution for Women in Corona. [11] Plans of the prison drawn by Alfred Eichler in 1930. The prison was reopened in 1954 as CCI, an all-men's prison. [5]
Kernville is a census-designated place (CDP) in the southern Sierra Nevada, in Kern County, California, United States. [4] Kernville is located 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Bakersfield, [6] at an elevation of 2,667 feet (813 m). [4]
Golden State Medium Community Correctional Facility is a privately owned medium-security prison for men, operated by the GEO Group under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house a maximum of 700 state inmates at medium security. [1] The facility stands in McFarland, Kern County, California.
Realignment "shifted responsibility for all sentenced non-violent, non-serious, non-sex offenders from state to local jurisdictions", [1] which decreased California prison populations, increased California county jail populations, and changed the types and distribution of crimes for which people were serving sentences in county jails.