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Rick Scott, Governor
Florida Department of Corrections
Michael D. Crews, Secretary
Inmate Admissions
Average Sentence Length of Admissions: 5.0 Years
- Most (54.8%) of those admitted to prison this fiscal year were sentenced to three years or less. The average sentence for everyone admitted to prison this fiscal year was 5.0 years. For calculation purposes, those sentenced to 50 years or longer, life or death was coded as 50-year sentences.
- Men who received death sentences are housed on death row at either Union C. I. or Florida State Prison. Women on death row are located at Lowell Annex.
- Anyone sentenced to prison today for a crime committed on or after October 1, 1995 will have served 85% of their sentence or more by the time they are released.
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| Sentence Length | White Males | White Females | Black Males | Black Females | Other Males | Other Females | Total | Percent | Cumulative Percent |
| Gt 1 To 2 Years | 5,554 | 1,332 | 5,217 | 679 | 422 | 41 | 13,245 | 36.4% | 36.4% |
| Gt 2 To 3 Years | 2,945 | 527 | 2,734 | 261 | 227 | 14 | 6,708 | 18.4% | 54.8% |
| Gt 3 To 5 Years | 3,128 | 463 | 3,018 | 235 | 287 | 7 | 7,138 | 19.6% | 74.4% |
| Gt 5 To 10 Years | 2,187 | 230 | 2,177 | 100 | 164 | 14 | 4,872 | 13.4% | 87.8% |
| Gt 10 To 20 Years | 1,142 | 84 | 1,276 | 42 | 123 | 4 | 2,671 | 7.3% | 95.1% |
| Gt 20 Years Or More | 715 | 42 | 919 | 21 | 73 | 4 | 1,774 | 4.9% | 100.0% |
| Data Unavailable | 276 | 57 | 212 | 22 | 14 | 3 | 584 | ||
| Total | 15,947 | 2,735 | 15,553 | 1,360 | 1,310 | 87 | 36,992 | 100.0% | |
| Average** | 4.9 | 3.1 | 5.5 | 3.0 | 5.5 | 4.4 | 5.0 | ||
| Median** | 2.5 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 2.5 | ||
| * GT - Greater than, LE - less than or equal to. ** Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages and medians. |
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Sentence lengths for Whites were up three tenths of a year in FY 2009-10. The same measure increased the same amount for Blacks. The average sentence lengths of "Others" such as Chinese, Native American, Japanese and those of Latin descent matched the highest sentence length over the five year comparison.
| Sentence Lengths by Race |
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