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Rick Scott, Governor
Florida Department of Corrections
Michael D. Crews, Secretary
Inmate Admissions
Elderly (50 or Older)
Admissions in FY 2005-06
| Category | FY 2005-06 | |
|---|---|---|
| ELDERLY ADMISSIONS | 2,606 | 100.0% |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 2,415 | 92.7% |
| Female | 191 | 7.3% |
| Race | ||
| White | 1,445 | 55.4% |
| Black | 1,095 | 42.0% |
| Other | 66 | 2.5% |
| Age at Admission | ||
| 50-55 | 1,747 | 67.0% |
| 56-60 | 524 | 20.1% |
| 61-65 | 199 | 7.6% |
| 66-70 | 77 | 3.0% |
| 71-75 | 40 | 1.5% |
| 76+ | 19 | 0.7% |
| Prior DC Prison Commitments | ||
| 0 | 1,202 | 46.5% |
| 1 | 417 | 16.1% |
| 2 | 293 | 11.3% |
| 3 | 190 | 7.4% |
| 4+ | 482 | 18.7% |
| Data unavailable = 22 Note: Due to rounding, percentages may not add up to 100%. |
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| Type of Offense |
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* 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.
| Elderly Inmate Admissions Over Five Years |
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| Type of Offense | Number | Percent | Average Sentence Length in Years* |
Average Age at Admission |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murder, Manslaughter | 106 | 4.1% | 25.8 | 57.7 |
| Sexual Offenses | 268 | 10.4% | 16.1 | 59.0 |
| Robbery | 50 | 1.9% | 12.1 | 53.5 |
| Violent Personal Offenses | 341 | 13.2% | 4.7 | 55.1 |
| Burglary | 209 | 8.1% | 4.8 | 54.0 |
| Theft/Forgery/Fraud | 385 | 14.9% | 2.7 | 54.8 |
| Drug Offenses | 749 | 29.0% | 2.7 | 54.5 |
| Weapons | 61 | 2.4% | 2.7 | 56.7 |
| Other | 415 | 16.1% | 2.1 | 55.6 |
| * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages. | ||||
