Coalinga State Hospital by the Numbers

Patient capacity at Coalinga State Hospital: 1,500

Current population: 762

Number of staff positions at Coalinga that are budgeted but unfilled: 670

Percentage of psychiatrist positions at Coalinga that are budgeted but unfilled: 50%

Percentage of sex offenders in California found to be sexually violent predators (SVPs): 1%

Number of SVPs committed at Coalinga: 460

Number of ?high-risk? individuals at Coalinga whose status as SVPs has yet to be determined by a court: 302

Percentage of patients whose primary diagnosis is pedophilia, and who were charged with at least one count of child molestation: 52%

Percentage of patients whose primary diagnosis is paraphilia, and who were convicted of at least one count of raping an adult or child: 32%

Percentage of patients who take anti-androgen drugs to reduce sexual compulsion: .003%

Percentage of patients with a psychotic disorder: 10%

Percentage of patients with a mood disorder: 34%

Percentage of patients at Coalinga who refuse to parti- cipate in a phased sex-offender-treatment program: 70%

Number of conditional releases from the state?s sex-offender program since 1996: 13

Number of conditionally released SVPs since 1996 who had success- fully completed a phased sex-offender-treatment program: 11

Number of SVPs and ?high-risk? individuals unconditionally released from the sex-offender program since 1996 after a court found they no longer posed a threat to society: 130

Average age of SVPs at Coalinga: 52



Source: California Department of Mental Health, July 2008

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