Inmate Admissions
Youthful (17 or under at offense) Admissions in FY 2003-04
| Category |
FY 2003-04 |
| YOUTHFUL ADMISSIONS |
1,301 |
100.0% |
| Gender |
| Male |
1,253 |
96.3% |
| Female |
48 |
3.7% |
| Race |
| White |
476 |
36.6% |
| Black |
794 |
61.0% |
| Other |
31 |
2.4% |
| Age at Offense |
| 12 or younger |
5 |
0.4% |
| 13 |
5 |
0.4% |
| 14 |
42 |
3.2% |
| 15 |
92 |
7.1% |
| 16 |
409 |
31.4% |
| 17 |
748 |
57.5% |
| Prior DC Prison Commitments |
| 0 |
1,005 |
77.2% |
| 1 |
267 |
20.5% |
| 2 |
28 |
2.2% |
| 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 Offense |
| Murder, Manslaughter |
68 |
5.2% |
22.7 |
16.4 |
| Sexual Offenses |
80 |
6.1% |
9.2 |
16.1 |
| Robbery |
285 |
21.9% |
6.6 |
16.3 |
| Violent Personal Offenses |
211 |
16.2% |
5.9 |
16.5 |
| Burglary |
326 |
25.1% |
5.2 |
16.4 |
| Theft/Forgery/Fraud |
95 |
7.3% |
2.5 |
16.6 |
| Drug Offenses |
160 |
12.3% |
2.9 |
16.7 |
| Weapons |
28 |
2.2% |
3.3 |
16.3 |
| Other |
48 |
3.7% |
3.5 |
16.1 |
| * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages. |
