Inmate Admissions
Elderly (50 or Older)
Admissions in FY 2002-03
| TOTAL ADMISSIONS |
1,577 |
100.0% |
| Gender |
| Male |
1,469 |
93.2% |
| Female |
108 |
6.8% |
| Race |
| White |
911 |
57.8% |
| Black |
628 |
39.8% |
| Other |
38 |
2.4% |
| Age at Admission |
| 50-55 |
1,048 |
66.5% |
| 56-60 |
305 |
19.3% |
| 61-65 |
133 |
8.4% |
| 66-70 |
60 |
3.8% |
| 71-75 |
20 |
1.3% |
| 76+ |
11 |
0.7% |
| Prior DC Prison Commitments |
| 0 |
762 |
48.3% |
| 1 |
287 |
18.2% |
| 2 |
156 |
9.9% |
| 3 |
133 |
7.2% |
| 4+ |
259 |
16.4% |
| Type of Offense |
|
* 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.
| Elderly Inmate Admissions Over Five Years |
|
| Type of Offense |
Number |
Percent |
Average Sentence Length in Years* |
Average Age at Admission |
| Murder, Manslaughter |
77 |
4.9% |
25.9 years |
56.7 |
| Sexual Offenses |
230 |
14.6% |
13.0 years |
58.3 |
| Robbery |
36 |
2.3% |
7.2 years |
53.7 |
| Violent Personal Offenses |
208 |
13.2% |
4.9 years |
54.8 |
| Burglary |
137 |
8.7% |
6.1 years |
53.4 |
| Theft/Forgery/Fraud |
261 |
16.6% |
2.7 years |
54.0 |
| Drug Offenses |
438 |
27.8% |
3.1 years |
54.4 |
| Weapons |
35 |
2.2% |
3.8 years |
56.4 |
| Other |
155 |
9.8% |
2.6 years |
54.7 |
| * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages. |
