Inmate Population

General Characteristics of Population

Category	June 30, 2012
Total Population	100,527	100.0%
Gender
Male	93,579	93.1%
Female	6,948	6.9%
Race
White	47,966	47.7%
Black	48,356	48.1%
Other	4,205	4.2%
Age on June 30, 2012
17 & Under	179	0.2%
18-24	14,768	14.7%
25-34	31,403	31.2%
35-49	35,809	35.6%
50-59	13,675	13.6%
60+	4,693	4.7%
Prior DC Prison Commitments
0	55,044	54.8%
1	20,649	20.5%
2	10,596	10.5%
3	6,063	6.0%
4+	8,155	8.1%
Data Unavailable	20

Type of Offense
Data Unavailable = 95
* 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 Fiscal Years

General Characteristics of Population by Offense Type on June 30, 2012
Type of Offense	Number	Percent	Average Sentence Length in Years*	Average Age at Offense
Murder, Manslaughter	13,779	13.7%	36.0	28.1
Sexual offenses	11,517	11.5%	23.1	33.4
Robbery	13,416	13.4%	19.0	26.3
Violent Personal offenses	11,992	11.9%	12.1	30.7
Burglary	16,260	16.2%	11.9	29.1
Theft/Forgery/Fraud	7,764	7.7%	5.0	34.1
Drug offenses	17,479	17.4%	7.0	33.3
Weapons	3,462	3.5%	7.8	30.0
Other	4,763	4.7%	6.4	35.0
* Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages.
Data Unavailable = 95