Pleasant Valley State Prison
Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP) is a 640-acre (260 ha) minimum-to-maximum security state prison in Coalinga, Fresno County, California. The facility houses Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted assassin of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, convicted murderer Erik Menendez, rap performer X-Raided and formerly Bone Thugs-n-Harmony member Flesh-N-Bone as well as Hans Reiser, the primary developer of the ReiserFS and Reiser4 computer filesystems, and convicted murderer.
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