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 | | Pliska is one of about 60 men released since the sexually violent predator law, enacted in 1996, began requiring such offenders to serve extra time for treatment at Atascadero State Hospital. |
 | | Although Pliska was confined for two years at Atascadero State Hospital, he only advanced to the second level of a five-phase, voluntary treatment program at the hospital, Macintyre said. |
 | | Unlike Pliska, however, DeVries completed the treatment program at Atascadero, was voluntarily castrated and applied for conditional release, meaning he could be forced to return to the program if he didn't abide by the terms of his release. |
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