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High Desert State Prison
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High Desert State Prison is a state prison located in Clark County, Nevada. Rated capacity: 4,176. Reported population: 3,669. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
High Desert State Prison (HDSP) is a high-security state prison that houses level IV inmates located in Leavitt in Lassen County, California. Opened in 1995, it has a capacity of 2,324 persons. As of January 31, 2023, High Desert was incarcerating people at 101.6% of its design capacity, with 2,362 occupants.https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2023/02/Tpop1_d2301.pdf A second prison facility, the Federal Correctional Institution, Herlong, is also located within Lassen County, California.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
4,176
Current population
3,669
Occupancy
88%
Year opened
1995
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Nevada Department of CorrectionsPopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1995
Region
Nevada
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Donny Johnson1960 · painter
Donald Clayton "Donny" Johnson (born 1960) is an American painter and convicted murderer.
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
0/100
Low concern0/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersOccupancythis: 88% · peers avg: 93% (5%)
Capacity (beds)this: 4176 · peers avg: 547 (+664%)
Data completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation â Facility Locator — State of California
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5755327)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). High Desert State Prison. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/high-desert-state-prison
Chicago
"High Desert State Prison." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/high-desert-state-prison.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-high-desert-state-prison,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {High Desert State Prison},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/high-desert-state-prison},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}