Most Admissions (56.7%) New to Florida Prisons

Prior commitments refers to any previous occasion that an inmate served time in the Florida prison system. This does not include supervision, such as probation. Nor does it include inmates who may have been in county jails in Florida, or in other state systems or in the Federal prison system.

• Some (43.3%) of the offenders who were admitted to the Florida state prison system in FY 2010-11 had been in state prison in Florida before, and that number has increased slightly over this past year (42.1%).
  
  
• 21% of the offenders who were admitted to the Florida state prison system in FY 2010-11 had been in prison in Florida once previously, and 9.6% had been in twice previously. Furthermore, over seven percent had been in prison in Florida four or more times in the past.
  
  
• For FY 2010-11,70.0% of the females had no previous Florida prison commitments, whereas, 53.5% of the males had no previous prison commitments.
  

Percent of Admissions With Prior Commitments to Florida's Prison System

Prior Commitments to the Florida Department of Corrections
Category	White Males	White Females	Black Males	Black Females	Other Males	Other Females	Total	Percent	Cumulative Percent
None	9,229	2,076	6,462	710	862	57	19,396	56.7%	56.7%
1	3,190	414	3,153	194	214	21	7,186	21.0%	77.7%
2	1,395	123	1,605	99	65	4	3,291	9.6%	87.3%
3	665	57	1,003	52	26	3	1,806	5.3%	92.6%
4+	725	43	1,670	76	26	0	2,540	7.4%	100.0%
Data Unavailable	342	88	263	37	41	2	773
Total	15,546	2,801	14,156	1,168	1,234	87	34,992	100.0%	100.0%