Inmate Releases and Time Served
General Characteristics of
FY 2001-02 Prison Releases
| TOTAL RELEASES |
26,299 |
100.0% |
| Gender |
| Male |
23,876 |
90.8% |
| Female |
2,423 |
9.2% |
| Race |
| White |
11,634 |
44.2% |
| Black |
14,064 |
53.5% |
| Other |
601 |
2.3% |
| Age |
| 17 & Under |
78 |
0.3% |
| 18-24 |
5,260 |
20.0% |
| 25-34 |
8,613 |
32.8% |
| 35-49 |
10,584 |
40.2% |
| 50-59 |
1,424 |
5.4% |
| 60+ |
339 |
1.3% |
| Data Unavailable |
1 |
|
| Prior DC Prison Commitments |
| 0 |
13,897 |
52.9% |
| 1 |
5,419 |
20.6% |
| 2 |
2,881 |
11.0% |
| 3 |
1,837 |
7.0% |
| 4+ |
2,224 |
8.5% |
| Data Unavailable |
41 |
|
| Releases by Offense Type |
 |
| * One of the following conditions must occur for a crime to be defined as violent under this definition: actual physical harm or threat of physical harm, or a reasonable probability existed that individual criminal acts could have resulted in unintended physical harm or the threat of physical harm. |
| Prison Releases Over Five Years |
 |
| Type of Offense |
Number |
Percent |
Average Sentence Length In Years* |
Average Age at Offense |
| Murder, Manslaughter |
838 |
3.2% |
16.0 |
37.2 |
| Sexual Offenses |
1,494 |
5.7% |
9.3 |
38.8 |
| Robbery |
2,540 |
9.7% |
7.2 |
31.4 |
| Violent Personal Offenses |
3,713 |
14.1% |
3.8 |
34.1 |
| Burglary |
4,423 |
16.8% |
4.6 |
32.2 |
| Theft/Forgery/Fraud |
3,547 |
13.5% |
2.6 |
34.8 |
| Drug Offenses |
7,137 |
27.1% |
2.9 |
34.4 |
| Weapons |
748 |
2.8% |
3.5 |
33.4 |
| Other (includes one data unavailable) |
1,859 |
7.1% |
2.4 |
36.0 |
| * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages. |
