Life licensees are persons who, having been sentenced to life imprisonment, are later released on license. Major findings from this study include: (1) Between 1972 and 1994 1,691 people were released for the first time on Life License; (2) Reconviction rates for standard list offenses for life licensees are much lower than the average for all those released from custody; (3) Those given a life sentence for homicide were less likely to be reconvicted than other life licensees; (4) Approximately 9 percent of life licensees released between 1972 and 1993 were convicted of a standard list offense within 2 years; (5) Nearly 20 percent of life licensees released between 1972 and 1990 were reconvicted of a standard list offense within 5 years; and (6) Of those released, 66 had been convicted of a grave offense by the end of 1995. Tables, figures, notes