General Characteristics
of FY 2004-05 Admissions

Category	FY 2004-05
TOTAL ADMISSIONS	32,204	100.0%
Gender
Male	28,677	89.0%
Female	3,527	11.0%
Race
White	16,044	49.8%
Black	15,265	47.4%
Other	895	2.8%
Age at Admission
17 & Under	261	0.8%
18-24	7,912	24.6%
25-34	10,485	32.6%
35-49	11,420	35.5%
50-59	1,799	5.6%
60+	326	1.0%
Data Unavailable	1
Prior DC Prison Commitments
0	18,050	56.0%
1	6,685	20.8%
2	3,210	10.0%
3	1,723	5.4%
4+	2,536	7.9%

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	866	2.7%	24.8	32.5
Sexual Offenses	1,798	5.6%	10.9	35.6
Robbery	2,091	6.5%	8.7	28.3
Violent Personal Offenses	4,351	13.5%	4.2	33.0
Burglary	4,411	13.7%	4.9	30.9
Theft/Forgery/Fraud	4,836	15.0%	2.4	34.7
Drug Offenses	9,643	29.9%	2.9	33.6
Weapons	908	2.8%	3.7	32.3
Other	3,299	10.2%	2.4	35.1
Data Unavailable = 1
* Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages.