Inmate Admissions
General Characteristics
of FY 2002-03 Admissions
| TOTAL ADMISSIONS |
28,882 |
100.0% |
| Gender |
| Male |
26,064 |
90.2% |
| Female |
2,818 |
9.8% |
| Race |
| White |
13,896 |
48.1% |
| Black |
14,294 |
49.5% |
| Other |
692 |
2.4% |
| Age at Admission |
| 17 & Under |
388 |
1.3% |
| 18-24 |
7,950 |
27.5% |
| 25-34 |
9,175 |
31.8% |
| 35-49 |
9,791 |
33.9% |
| 50-59 |
1,300 |
4.5% |
| 60+ |
277 |
1.0% |
| Missing |
1 |
|
| Prior DC Prison Commitments |
| 0 |
16,244 |
56.2% |
| 1 |
5,798 |
20.1% |
| 2 |
2,821 |
9.8% |
| 3 |
1,634 |
5.7% |
| 4+ |
2,385 |
8.3% |
| Inmate Admissions by 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.
| Inmate Admissions Over Five Years |
|
| Type of Offense |
Number |
Percent |
Average Sentence Length in Years* |
Average Age at Admission |
| Murder, Manslaughter |
894 |
3.1% |
23.2 years |
32.6 |
| Sexual Offenses |
1,682 |
5.8% |
11.2 years |
35.6 |
| Robbery |
2,293 |
7.9% |
8.8 years |
27.5 |
| Violent Personal Offenses |
3,963 |
13.7% |
4.5 years |
32.2 |
| Burglary |
4,203 |
14.6% |
4.9 years |
30.0 |
| Theft/Forgery/Fraud |
4,257 |
14.7% |
2.5 years |
34.1 |
| Drug Offenses |
8,373 |
29.0% |
3.0 years |
32.7 |
| Weapons |
862 |
3.0% |
3.8 years |
31.2 |
| Other |
2,355 |
8.2% |
2.6 years |
34.1 |
| * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages. |
