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Rick Scott, Governor
Florida Department of Corrections
Michael D. Crews, Secretary
Inmate Admissions
Youthful (17 or under at offense) Admissions
| Category | FY 2008-09 | |
|---|---|---|
| Youthful Admissions | 1,789 | 100.0% |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 1,714 | 95.8% |
| Female | 75 | 4.2% |
| Race | ||
| White | 633 | 35.4% |
| Black | 1,100 | 61.5% |
| Other | 56 | 3.1% |
| Age at Admission | ||
| 12 or younger | 9 | 0.5% |
| 13 | 13 | 0.7% |
| 14 | 47 | 2.6% |
| 15 | 192 | 10.7% |
| 16 | 558 | 31.2% |
| 17 | 970 | 54.2% |
| Prior DC Prison Commitments | ||
| 0 | 1,553 | 86.8% |
| 1 | 220 | 12.3% |
| 2 | 16 | 0.9% |
Note: Due to rounding, percentages may not add up to 100%.
| 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. |
| Youthful (17 or under) Admissions Over Five Years |
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| Type of Offense | Number | Percent | Average Sentence Length in Years* |
Average Age at Admission |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murder, Manslaughter | 125 | 7.0% | 17.2 | 16.5 |
| Sexual offenses | 75 | 4.2% | 10.7 | 16.6 |
| Robbery | 448 | 25.0% | 6.7 | 16.9 |
| Violent Personal offenses | 267 | 14.9% | 5.2 | 17 |
| Burglary | 456 | 25.5% | 4.6 | 16.9 |
| Theft/Forgery/Fraud | 119 | 6.7% | 2.3 | 17.1 |
| Drug offenses | 166 | 9.3% | 3 | 17.2 |
| Weapons | 52 | 2.9% | 2.8 | 17 |
| Other | 81 | 4.5% | 4.8 | 16.2 |
| * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages. | ||||
