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Rick Scott, Governor
Florida Department of Corrections
Michael D. Crews, Secretary
Inmate Admissions
Elderly (50 or Older)
Admissions in FY 2006-07
| Category | FY 2006-07 | |
|---|---|---|
| ELDERLY ADMISSIONS | 3,151 | 100.0% |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 2,861 | 90.8% |
| Female | 290 | 9.2% |
| Race | ||
| White | 1,707 | 54.2% |
| Black | 1,353 | 42.9% |
| Other | 91 | 2.9% |
| Age at Admission | ||
| 50-55 | 2,136 | 67.8% |
| 56-60 | 644 | 20.4% |
| 61-65 | 230 | 7.3% |
| 66-70 | 86 | 2.7% |
| 71-75 | 42 | 1.3% |
| 76+ | 13 | 0.4% |
| Prior DC Prison Commitments | ||
| 0 | 1,394 | 44.2% |
| 1 | 545 | 17.3% |
| 2 | 358 | 11.4% |
| 3 | 254 | 8.1% |
| 4+ | 574 | 18.2% |
| Data unavailable = 26 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 Compared Over Five Years |
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| Type of Offense | Number | Percent | Average Sentence Length in Years* |
Average Age at Admission |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murder, Manslaughter | 107 | 3.4% | 23.6 | 58.1 |
| Sexual Offenses | 264 | 8.4% | 13.8 | 58.0 |
| Robbery | 59 | 1.9% | 10.3 | 54.1 |
| Violent Personal Offenses | 382 | 10.5% | 4.1 | 55.6 |
| Burglary | 236 | 7.6% | 4.7 | 54.2 |
| Theft/Forgery/Fraud | 516 | 16.5% | 2.6 | 55.0 |
| Drug Offenses | 984 | 31.5% | 2.7 | 54.6 |
| Weapons | 87 | 2.8% | 3.2 | 55.1 |
| Other | 490 | 15.7% | 2.4 | 55.0 |
| * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages. | ||||
