Florida County Detention Facilities' Average Inmate Population

March 2004

Inmate Profile Summary

This County Detention Facilities Summary provides a monthly profile of Florida’s detention facility inmate populations. Monthly Average Daily Population (ADP) figures include male, female, adult and juvenile inmates.

These population figures are arranged into felony, misdemeanor and "other" subcategories in Table 1. "Other" includes the number of parole violators, state inmates, undocumented aliens, holdings for other jurisdictions and individuals detained under the Baker (mental health) and Myers (alcoholism) Acts. Within felony and misdemeanor subcategories, the number of inmates sentenced, held for trial or sentencing, and those detained or sentenced for violation of probation are listed.

Table 2 features the Average Daily Population and incarceration rate in each county. Table 3 lists the number and percent of felony and misdemeanor pretrial inmates at each detention facility.

The Jail Population Summary (Table 4) lists detention center totals for the year to date.

Table of Contents:

• Average Daily Population
• Incarceration Rates
• Pretrial Population Levels
• Table 1 - County Detention Facilities Daily Average
• Table 2 - County Detention Facilities Average Daily Populations and Incarceration Rates Per 1,000 County Population
• Table 3 - County Detention Facilities Pretrial Inmate Report and County Pretrial Percentages
• Table 4 - Jail Population Summary

---

Average Daily Population

On average, there were 54,155 inmates in Florida’s county detention facilities during the month of March 2004. The statewide average daily (ADP) totals include 46,415 adult males (85.6%), 7,201 adult females (13.3%), 446 juvenile males (0.8%) and 93 juvenile females (0.0%). The overall distribution of male and female inmates has remained constant in county detention facilities for the past several years. The following provides an analysis of the inmate population for March 2004:

March 2004 Jail Population Recap

• 72.7% of the total inmate population was incarcerated for felony offenses, while 21.0% were detained for misdemeanor crimes. All others confined amounted to 6.3% of the total population.



• Juveniles accounted for only 539 or 1.0% of the overall inmate population, with the majority (446) being male. Most juveniles (98.0%) were charged with felonies.



• The majority (86.4% or 46,861) of those incarcerated in county detention facilities in March 2004 were male.



• Offenders held for trial represented 54.9% of the inmate population.

Incarceration Rates

In March 2004, the statewide county detention incarceration rate was 3.3 per 1,000 county residents based on the population estimates for April 1, 2003. The county population estimates are provided by the Office of Economic and Demographic Research of the Florida Legislature. Incarceration rates ranged from a low of 1.5 in Union County, to a high of 8.5 in Wakulla County. Other counties may be experiencing high incarceration rates due to the contracting of bed space for federal inmates.

Pretrial Population Levels

During the month of March 2004, 29,747 of the inmates housed in county detention facilities were classified as "Awaiting Trial." Of these, 24,366 offenders (81.9%) were awaiting trial for felony offenses while 5,505 (18.1%) were detained for misdemeanor violations. Of the 63 counties reporting, 32 had over half of their inmates awaiting trial.

Notes: The numbers in this report do not include the following facilities: Calhoun County Jail, Escambia County Jail / Main, Escambia County Road Prison, Escambia County Central Booking and Detention, Martin County Jail, and Okeechobee County Jail.

Download/view a PDF version of this publication formatted for printing (56K PDF)