Florida Department of Corrections
Michael D. Crews, Secretary

Inmates in Prison

• Admissions
• Inmate Population
• Death Row
• Releases
• Other Statistics

Inmate Admissions

Inmate Admissions refers to the 21,951 inmates who entered the Florida prison system from July 1, 1996 to June 30, 1997. The following pages will detail the characteristics of these offenders. From FY 1987-88 to FY 1989-90, inmate admissions to Florida's prison system climbed steadily, from 30,644 to 44,701. During the next six years, admissions decreased substantially. Inmate admissions rose slightly in FY 1996-97 to 21,951.

• Graph: Inmate Admissions
• Graph: Inmate Admissions by Month
• Tables: General Characteristics of FY 1996-97 Prison Admissions
• Graph: Judicial Circuits with Majority of Admissions
• Graph: Prison Admissions by Offense Type
• Table: Prison Admissions/Intakes
• Table: County of Commitment
• Graph: Major Contributing Counties
• Table: Sentence Length of Current Commitment
• Profiles of Inmates Admitted During FY 1996-97
• Table: Prior Commitments to the Florida Department of Corrections
• Graph: Percent of Admissions with Prior Commitments to Florida's Prison System
• Table: Primary Offenses

Admissions for Drug Offenses Continue to Decline There were 4,954 drug offenders admitted during the 1996-97 fiscal year. Most of them (55.9%) had prior Florida prison commitments. For the seventh consecutive year, drug admissions have decreased. See the Profiles for more information on the typical drug offender.

• Table: Class of Felony of Primary Offense
• Graph: Primary Offense Categories by Percent of Total
• Graph: Drug Admissions as a Percent of Total Admissions
• Tables: Total Drug Admissions
• Graph: Average Age of Prison Admissions
• Table: Age at Admission
• Table: Tested Educational Grade Level at Admission
• Table: Tested Literacy Skill Levels at Admission
• Graph: Habitual Offender Admissions
• Graph: Admissions with Mandatory Sentences
• Table: Inmates Admitted with Habitual Offender Sentences
• Table: Inmates Admitted with Mandatory Sentences

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Inmate Population - on June 30, 1996

Inmate population refers to the 64,713 inmates who were present in the Florida prison system on June 30, 1997. Included in this section is a subsection on the Death Row population as of June 30, 1997. The following links will detail the characteristics of these offenders.

• Graph: Inmate Population
• Graph: Inmate Population by Race
• Table: Inmate Population on June 30th Each Year
• Graph: Number of Inmates Incarcerated on June 30 per 100,000 Florida Population
• Table: County of Commitment
• Table: Prior Commitments to the Florida Department of Corrections
• Graph: Percent of Inmate Population with Prior Commitments to Florida's Prison System
• Table: Primary Offenses
• Table: Total Sentence Length of Current Commitment
• Table: Class of Felony of Primary Offense
• Table: Current Inmate Age
• Table: Medical Grade Classification
• Table: Tested Educational Grade Level
• Table: Tested Literacy Skill Levels
• Graph: Habitual Offender Inmates
• Graph: Inmates with Mandatory Sentences
• Table: Inmates in Prison with Habitual Offender Sentences
• Table: Mandatory Sentences

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Death Row

The state of Florida was given the authority to execute inmates by the 1923 Legislature, and the following year Frank Johnson was the first inmate ever executed by the state. Male inmates under sentence of death are housed at Union Correctional Institution (C.I.) at Raiford or Florida State Prison in Starke, and female inmates reside at Broward C.I. in Pembroke Pines. The sole method of execution in Florida is the electric chair. The executioner is an anonymous, private citizen who is paid $150 per execution.

This section details the death row population over the last 10 years, the most frequent counties of conviction and the nature of additions and removals from death row.

• Graph: Death Row Population at the End of each Fiscal Year
• Graph: Additions to and Removals from Death Row
• Table: Gender and Race of Death Row Inmates
• Graph: County of Conviction for Inmates on Death Row
• Table: Executions in Florida Since Reinstatement of the Death Penalty
• Table: Total Executions

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Releases

This section includes statistics on the number of inmates who were released from the Florida prison system during the period from July 1, 1996 through June 30, 1997.

Releases are grouped into two broad categories: Permanent Releases and Temporary Releases. Permanent Releases are those inmates who have reached the end point of a state prison sentence and whose state prison record has been officially closed out. Temporary releases are those inmates currently in the service of a state prison sentence who are not in the physical custody of the department and whose prison record is still currently active.

• Graph: Permanent Inmate Releases
• Table: Inmate Release and Transfers
• Graph: Prison Release Types: Annual Totals
• Graph: Average Percent of Sentence Served over Seven Years

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