Inmate Admissions
Youthful (17 or under at offense) Admissions in FY 2002-03
| TOTAL ADMISSIONS |
1,566 |
100.0% |
| Gender |
| Male |
1,507 |
96.2% |
| Female |
59 |
3.8% |
| Race |
| White |
571 |
36.5% |
| Black |
965 |
61.6% |
| Other |
30 |
1.9% |
| Age at Admission |
| 12 or younger |
5 |
0.3% |
| 13 |
14 |
0.9% |
| 14 |
69 |
4.4% |
| 15 |
152 |
9.7% |
| 16 |
521 |
33.3% |
| 17 |
805 |
51.4% |
| Prior DC Prison Commitments |
| 0 |
1,220 |
77.9% |
| 1 |
318 |
20.3% |
| 2 |
27 |
1.7% |
| 3 |
1 |
0.1% |
| 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.
| Youthful (17 or under) Admissions Over Five Years |
|
| Type of Offense |
Number |
Percent |
Average Sentence Length in Years* |
Average Age at Admission |
| Murder, Manslaughter |
83 |
5.3% |
18.3 years |
16.3 |
| Sexual Offenses |
100 |
6.4% |
8.6 years |
16.1 |
| Robbery |
354 |
22.6% |
6.3 years |
16.1 |
| Violent Personal Offenses |
249 |
15.9% |
4.9 years |
16.2 |
| Burglary |
360 |
23.0% |
4.1 years |
16.4 |
| Theft/Forgery/Fraud |
115 |
7.3% |
2.9 years |
16.4 |
| Drug Offenses |
209 |
13.3% |
3.2 years |
16.6 |
| Weapons |
39 |
2.5% |
3.0 years |
16.5 |
| Other |
57 |
3.6% |
3.2 years |
16.0 |
| * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages. |
