60% of Sex Offenders Paroled, Study Says
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Almost 60% of the 234,000 convicted sex offenders under the supervision of corrections officials nationwide were on parole or probation, a Justice Department study of 1994 data found. The study showed sex offenders less likely than other convicts to be on release programs. Overall, 75% of offenders were. The report prepared by the Bureau of Justice Statistics said rapists had a lower rate of rearrest for felonies than most other violent convicts on probation.
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