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Prison populations growing
Texas jails lead nation
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The
Texas prison population, the
largest in the nation, grew by 15
percent last year, much faster
than the national average, U.S.
Justice Department statistics
showed Monday.
Prison population nation
wide grew 42,915 to a total of
412,303 inmates, the Justice De
partment’s Bureau of Justice
Statistics reported.
Texas last year led all other
states in the number of prison
ers held in state and federal faci
lities. Prison population in 1982
totaled 36,282, which is a 15.2
percent increase over the pre
vious year. In 1981, the prison
population grew by only 3.4 per
cent.
Nationwide, total prison
populationjumped 11.6 percent
in 1982, which is slightly less
than 1981 nationwide prison
growth of 12.2 percent.
An analysis of the statistics re
vealed that “severe pressure on
the nation’s correctional re
sources will continue through
out this decade.”
Texas’ 1982 year-end total
represented 4,780 additional
prisoners, second only to Cali
fornia’s increase of 5,257 in
mates and Florida’s addition of
4,241 inmates.
The 1982 growth in prison
pouplations produced record
incarceration rates, the bureau
found. Nationwide, there were
170 prisoners per 100,000 per
sons in the general population
last year, compared to a rate of
153 inmates per 100,000 people
in 1981.
In Texas, the incarceration
per
rate was 237 prisoners
100,000 residents in 1982.
The bureau predicted the
large number of post-World
War II “baby boom” males, now
reaching their crime-prone
years, could continue to drive up
the prison population through
at least 1990.
Most prison inmates fall with
in the range of 20 to 29 years
old. The largest group in the
United States in 1982 was 22,
which the bureau said is still re
latively young in terms of im
prisonment potential.
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HOUSTON — A dispute over
a pay telephone erupted into
gunfire which left one man dead
and six others injured, police
said Monday.
Officers said the incident be
gan about 10 p.m. Sunday at a
north side apartment complex
when a man became impatient
because a woman was holding a
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pay telephone too long, and
took the phone away from her.
Police said the woman’s hus
band, Richard Lara, 29, hit the
man in the stomach and started
a fight.
Homicide Detective C.E.
Dailey said the fight then “de
teriorated into a gun battle”
which killed Lara and wounded
six others.
Apartment manager Sylves
ter Magee said he heard shots
and looked outside to see four
people running around the
courtyard “shooting each other
like crazy.”
Lara died at the scene.
Three other men injured re
mained in poor condition at
Hermann and Ben Taub hospit
als Monday. Three women
wounded in the fight were hos
pitalized in good condition at
Ben Taub.
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PASADENA, Calif. — Four
gigantic balloons crammed with
scientific instruments will be re
leased in the next several weeks
to continue a study of ozone in
the Earth’s stratosphere.
The balloons will be launched
by an international team of sci
entists in two simultaneous pairs
from the National Scientific Bal
loon Facility in Palestine, Texas,
anytime after Monday if weath
er conditions permit.
The Jet Propulsion Labora
tory in Pasadena is participating
in the project and furnishing
two of the 40-million-cubic bal
loons. The four 800-foot-tall
bags will make up the greatest
number of big balloons released
in one day and they will lift the
heaviest scientific payloads by
balloons in a single day — eight
tons.
Ozone, an unstable gas con
sisting of three oxygen atoms,
collects in the stratosphere —
about 7 to 30 miles up — where
it absorbs a large part of the
sun’s ultraviolet rays and pre
vents that harsh radiation from
damaging life on the Earth’s sur
face.
Scientists have been con
cerned about the effects of man
made gases on ozone. Such gases
as chloro-fluorocarbons — used
in refrigeration systems and
spray cans — and the agricultu
ral fertilizers and exhausts from
high-flying jet aircraft are caus
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vironmentalists and scions
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thought to combine chens
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HOUSTON — Gov. Mark
White said in a video-taped
speech to a safety association
meeting Monday in Houston
that he supports harsher penal
ties and stricter enforcement of
Texas’ drunken driving laws.
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