Title: Coalinga State Hospital - Wikipedia
Headings: Coalinga State Hospital
Coalinga State Hospital
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Content: Therefore, the court ruled that Mr. G's detention at Coalinga would have amounted to a "flagrant" breach of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights. On December 27, 2019, a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States was filed in the matter of Pashtoon Farooqi v. State of California, challenging, inter alia, conditions of confinement at Coalinga State Hospital. The Supreme court subsequently refused to hear the case. Treatment
California law allows persons designated as sexually violent predators to be committed to the facility indefinitely (under Jessica's Law) while they are receiving treatment. Thus, treatment is offered, but is not required. The state's position is that they are offering CSH's inhabitants adequate treatment; namely, what the state refers to as its Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP). Approximately 1/3 of inhabitants take part in the Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP). Since 2006, 179 patients have been "unconditionally released"; they have been deemed no longer to meet the criteria identifying them as sexually violent predators and can live freely, although registered as sex offenders.