General Characteristics of
June 30, 2004 Prison Population

Category	June 30, 2004
Inmates in Prison 6/30/04	81,974	100.0%
Gender
Male	76,675	93.5%
Female	5,299	6.5%
Race
White	36,935	45.1%
Black	42,572	51.9%
Other	2,467	3.0%
Current Age
17 & Under	214	0.3%
18-24	13,564	16.5%
25-34	26,277	32.1%
35-49	33,218	40.5%
50-59	6,759	8.2%
60+	1,937	2.4%
Missing	5
Prior DC Prison Commitments
0	43,433	53.0%
1	16,429	20.0%
2	9,146	11.2%
3	5,741	7.0%
4+	7,214	8.8%
Missing	11

Primary Offense of Prison Population

Data Unavailable = 113 * 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 Population on June 30

Type of Offense	Number	Percent	Average Sentence Length In Years*	Average Age at Offense
Murder, Manslaughter	10,861	13.2%	35.3	27.5
Sexual offenses	9,049	11.0%	21.6	31.7
Robbery	10,490	12.8%	19.0	26.0
Violent Personal offenses	9,988	12.2%	10.6	29.8
Burglary	12,339	15.1%	11.9	28.8
Theft/Forgery/Fraud	6,917	8.4%	4.8	32.5
Drug offenses	16,024	19.5%	5.8	31.5
Weapons	2,183	2.7%	8.2	30.5
Other	4,010	4.9%	5.1	32.6
Data Unavailable: 113 * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages.