Inmate Admissions

Elderly (50 or Older) Admissions

Category	FY 2011-12
Elderly Admissions	3,349	100.0%
Gender
Male	2,998	89.5%
Female	351	10.5%
Race
White	1,923	57.4%
Black	1,328	39.7%
Other	98	2.9%
Age at Admission
50-55	2,118	63.2%
56-60	760	22.7%
61-65	306	9.1%
66-70	109	3.3%
71-75	38	1.1%
76+	18	0.5%
Prior DC Prison Commitments
0	1,320	40.1%
1	541	16.4%
2	375	11.4%
3	273	8.3%
4+	784	23.8%
Data Unavailable = 56

Note:  Due to rounding, percentages may not add up to 100%.

Type of Offense
Data Unavailable = 56 * 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 Fiscal Years

Elderly (50 or older) Admissions by Offense Type for FY 2011-12
Type of Offense	Number	Percent	Average Sentence Length in Years*	Average Age at Admission
Murder, Manslaughter	110	3.3%	25.9	58.3
Sexual offenses	321	9.7%	14.8	59.2
Robbery	100	3.0%	9.2	54.5
Violent Personal offenses	468	14.2%	4.5	55.5
Burglary	354	10.8%	5.4	54.3
Theft/Forgery/Fraud	584	17.7%	2.8	55.1
Drug offenses	835	25.4%	3.4	55.6
Weapons	111	3.4%	4.0	55.9
Other	410	12.5%	2.9	55.4
Data Unavailable = 56 * Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages.