European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday May 26,1967 70% of parolees rearrested study finds Washington and seven of in Young adults paroled from prison Are my relied for serious crimes within six years according to a government study ill at was released sunday. Young men. Blacks and parolees who i ave not completed High school arc More Likely to be repeal offenders than Are Young women whiles and High school graduates concludes the 22-Siatc Survey of criminals from Ages 17 10 22 who were paroled from prison in 1978. The study by the Bureau of Justice Silil Islic found thai 69 percent of the 11,300 parolees in the 22 so alas were Carr Csick for More than 36.000 new felonies or serious misdemeanours in the next is years. The repeat offenders were charged with committing 6,700 violent crimes including 32j murders 23 rapes 2,2� i robberies and 3,053 assaults. The repeat offenders also were charged Wilh 19,000 new properly crimes. Seventy percent of the men were rear rested while 52 percent of the women were. Sixty four percent of the whiles were rearrested compared to 16 percent of the  and 71 percent of the his panics. Seventy one per cell of those who did not graduate from High school were rearrest cd compared to 61 percent of the High school graduates and 48 percent of those with some College education seventeen to 22-year-Olds have higher Rales of rearrest re conviction and re incarceration than other age groups said statistician Allen a Beck the principal author of the study. He said the big de Cline in recidivism comes among in mates who Are Over age 3s and Olio make up a Small percentage of those re leased from prison. Fifty la acc percent of All the 17 to 22 year old parolees surveyed were convicted of a serious new offence and 49 percent were sent Back to prison. Those paroled for property crimes had higher recidivism Rales than Hose paroled for violent or drug offences. The Bureau found thai almost three quarters of the property offenders paroled in 1978 were rearrested within six years compared to about two thirds of the violent offenders and nearly half of the drug offenders. Forty one percent of the paroled burglars were re arrested for burglary. Recidivism Rales were highest in the first two years following release. Within one year 32 percent of those surveyed were re arrested and 41 percent had been taken into custody again within two years. More than 90 percent of the parolees Wilh six or More previous adult arrests were re arrested compared to 59 percent of inc first time offenders. The. Bureau said 37 percent of the parolees were rearrested while still on parole. The study was based on a Sample of 4,000 of the 11,300 Young inmates paroled from prison in 1978 in 22 states which accounted for 50 percent of All slate prisoners paroled in the nation that  for group of 11,300 parolees were based on a projection of the results from the represent Alyc smaller Sample. The Stales represented in the Sample were Alabama Delaware Florida Georgia Illinois Kansas Kentucky Maine Michigan Nebraska Nevada new Hampshire new Mexico North Carolina North Dakota Ohio. Pennsyl Vania South Dakota Texas Utah Vir Ginia and Wyoming there is no National or regional Corn i lation of rearrest rates for people in older age groups but one study shows that a Carrel Rales in Illinois tend to de Cline with age. National data on people being Scal Back to prison show that re incarceration rates also tend to decline with age. Tasteful Way to make a living up photo these three men have no grounds for complain. Is one Trig Coffee break far them. The three Are Quality control experts at a food company in Chicago and they Sample about 600 cups of Coffee per week. Most s. California aliens of d for Legal status report says los Angeles i l Federal immigration officials say most illegal immigrants in Southern califor Nia who have gone through the first phase of the am Nesty program have been recommended for Legal status the los Angeles times said. More than 5,300 immigrants Oul of about 5,800 interviewed by thursday in California and neighbor ing Stales had been tentatively approved by govern ment examiners for Legal status and Given temporary work cards the newspaper said sunday. Most of those who were not Given temporary work authorization were asked to provide More documents to support their cases officials said you Sec How thrilled they Are when they walk Oul Wilh their cards said a Guadalupe Oehoa director of he immigration and naturalization service s a Monte legalization office. They Cali a there s no Green and White Border Patro bus waiting around the Corner to suck them up and Lake them Back across the Border Ochoa said. Ernest Gustawson the los Angeles District director for ins said lie is confident the High percentage of immigrant recommended for Legal status would hold for the one year duration of the amnesty program. The 1986 immigration and control a offers am Nesty to illegal immigrants who have lived in the United Stales since before january 1982. While even some of the harshest critics acknowledge the program appears to be running smoothly others express concern that Many potential applicants Are holding Back because of continuing anxieties in the immigrant Community. Ins officials Ai legalization centers in the los Angeles area said they were Rou Iii by handing Oul temporary work authorization cards to just about All immigrants who com pm elfin their first interviews the times said. Only those whose documentation appears to be in order roughly iwo Oul of three applicants thus far arc granted interviews 10 verify the paper work and Check their history. Ins officials Sny thai ii Fier a slow Start immediately after the Law went into effect May 5. Many of the larger processing offices Are now interviewing As Many As 100 immigrants per Day. O Neill democratic race similar to 952, tip o Neill says Washington up former House speaker Thomas p. Tip o Neill said sunday that the current democratic run for Thi White House reminds him of the situation in 1952, which pitted governors against Washington insiders o Neill old a news conference at the american booksellers convention where he is plugging his Book Man of the House to be published in septem Ber by random House that the democratic nomination will go All the Way to the convention. I can see it coming Down to n fight Between who emerges from the governors pack and who emerges from Llie Washington pack o Neill said. "1 see Massachusetts go1/, mini Gael Dukakis As a very very1 Strong Candi Date. The main reason is. The Economy of the state. This governor has put a tremendous Power together he said. On the Washington Side i Sec Delaware sen. Joseph Biden from the Senate and Missouri rep. Richard Gephard from the House he said "1 think it s going logo right Down to the convention with the three contenders. He also said he thinks that vice president George Bush probably nil be Ilie candidate for the republicans but that former sen. Paul Zakall of Nevada is a close Friend of president Reagan and in president basically controls the  o Neill said democrats would rather run against Bush than St Nale Republican Leader Robert Dole of Kansas who he noted is a Good speaker. Later o Neill reminisced about his half Century of political life including several presidents he has worked with. No Man Ever went to the White House As talented and As prepared As Richard Nixon he said. Strange kind of Guy. We used to play cards. Any Man who lost 140 in a poker game and screeched about it i say should never be  Jimmy Carter was the smartest Man i have Ever met in Public life he said the trouble is he had a bad staff around him. History is going 10 show him As a great presi  he had a few kind words for Reagan but he also said he got an inkling on inauguration Day in 1981 that the president s memory might be a Little shaky. Reagan had just Given the inaugural address. He s using the speaker s office and my Bath to change his clothes and get himself Rea to come out for the lunch. I m waiting for him in the room and he name in he said. "1 had a desk and it says on it Grover Cleveland president 1892-1896. The president looked at me and he said. I played him in a movie.1 no i said you played g Rover Cleveland Alexander the baseball player.1 " Jod bless Ronald he made me a big Man