Inmate Admissions

General Characteristics of FY 2011-12 Admissions

Category	FY 2011-12
Total Admissions	32,279	100.0%
Gender
Male	28,601	88.6%
Female	3,678	11.4%
Race
White	17,174	53.2%
Black	13,893	43.0%
Other	1,212	3.8%
Age at Admission
17 & Under	268	0.8%
18-24	8,107	25.1%
25-34	10,951	33.9%
35-49	9,604	29.8%
50-59	2,770	8.6%
60+	579	1.8%
Prior DC Prison Commitments
0	17,261	54.9%
1	6,756	21.5%
2	3,214	10.2%
3	1,763	5.6%
4+	2,456	7.8%
Data Unavailable	829

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

Type of Offense
Data Unavailable = 829 * 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.

Inmate Admissions Compared Over Five Fiscal Years

General Characteristics of Admissions by Offense Type for FY 2011-12
Type of Offense	Number	Percent	Average Sentence Length in Years*	Average Age at Admission
Murder, Manslaughter	1,066	3.4%	25.8	32.9
Sexual offenses	1,685	5.4%	12.5	38.5
Robbery	2,315	7.4%	8.5	28.2
Violent Personal offenses	4,351	13.8%	4.6	34.3
Burglary	5,514	17.5%	4.6	30.4
Theft/Forgery/Fraud	4,794	15.2%	2.5	35.9
Drug offenses	7,728	24.6%	3.1	35.3
Weapons	1,416	4.5%	3.7	31.6
Other	2,581	8.2%	2.9	37.8
Data Unavailable = 829 *Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages.