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Rick Scott, Governor
Florida Department of Corrections
Michael D. Crews, Secretary
Inmate Population
General Characteristics of Population
| Category | FY 2008-09 | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | 100,894 | 100.0% |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 93,857 | 93.0% |
| Female | 7,037 | 7.0% |
| Race | ||
| White | 46,769 | 46.4% |
| Black | 50,106 | 49.7% |
| Other | 4,019 | 4.0% |
| Age at Admission | ||
| 17 & Under | 393 | 0.4% |
| 18-24 | 15,447 | 15.3% |
| 25-34 | 31,592 | 31.3% |
| 35-49 | 38,261 | 37.9% |
| 50-59 | 11,671 | 11.6% |
| 60+ | 3,530 | 3.5% |
| Prior DC Prison Commitments | ||
| 0 | 54,991 | 54.5% |
| 1 | 20,316 | 20.1% |
| 2 | 10,806 | 10.7% |
| 3 | 6,284 | 6.2% |
| 4+ | 8,480 | 8.4% |
| Data Unavailable | 17 | |
Note: Due to rounding, percentages may not add up to 100%.
Primary Offense |
| Data unavailable = 55 |
| * 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 exists that individual criminal acts could have resulted in unintended physical harm or the threat of physical harm. |
| Prison Population on June 30 Compared Over Five Years  |
| Type of Offense | Number | Percent | Average Sentence Length in Years* |
Average Age at Offense |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murder, Manslaughter | 12,684 | 12.6% | 35.6 | 28.1 |
| Sexual offenses | 10,888 | 10.8% | 22.2 | 32.8 |
| Robbery | 12,468 | 12.4% | 18.9 | 26.3 |
| Violent Personal offenses | 12,251 | 12.1% | 10.9 | 30.1 |
| Burglary | 14,799 | 14.7% | 11.9 | 29.3 |
| Theft/Forgery/Fraud | 8,314 | 8.2% | 4.7 | 33.9 |
| Drug offenses | 20,023 | 19.8% | 6.1 | 32.4 |
| Weapons | 3,083 | 3.1% | 7.6 | 30.1 |
| Other | 6,329 | 6.3% | 5 | 34.6 |
| * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages. | ||||
| Data unavailable = 55 | ||||
