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Does Incarceration in Coalinga Violate Inmates Rights?

By Steven Rodriguez

It looks like hundreds of shopping malls scattered across California. There’s a barbershop, post office, library, dentist’s office and cafe.  If it weren’t for the Orwellian khaki uniforms and armed guards, it could be a mall in any town in California. But this mall is in Coalinga State Hospital, California’s long-term treatment psychiatric facility for rapists and pedophiles. Most of the 762 patients will live here until they die. If you are charged with a violent sex crime, this could become your permanent home. A little more than half of Coalinga’s all-male population is comprised of sexually violent predators (SVP). About 1% of the sex offenders convicted in California are found to be SVPs. One third of the patients incarcerated at Coalinga have been convicted of rape...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on September 19, 2008 (boomark / email).