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TOTAL CORRECTIONS POPULATION (2011, except a 2009, b 2010)
Total Incarcerated, Prison and Jail 166,675
Prison Population 103,055
Jail Population 63,620b
Prison Incarceration Rate (per 100,000) 538
Jail Incarceration Rate (per 100,000) 358b
Probation Population 244,686
Parole Population 4,203
Life Sentences (% of Prison Population) 10,784 (11.3%)a
Life without Parole (% of Prison Population) 6,424 (N/A)a
Juveniles Serving Life without Parole 355
GENDER-SPECIFIC IMPRISONMENT (2011)
Males in Prison 95,913
Females in Prison 7,142
RACE/ETHNICITY-SPECIFIC IMPRISONMENT (2005)
White Imprisonment Rate (per 100,000) 588
Black Imprisonment Rate (per 100,000) 2,615
Hispanic Imprisonment Rate (per 100,000) 382
RACIAL/ETHNIC DISPARITY IN INCARCERATION (2005)
Black: White Ratio 4.4:1
Hispanic: White Ratio 0.6:1
JUVENILES IN CUSTODY (2010)
Total Juveniles In Custody 4,815
Juvenile Custody Rate (per 100,000) 261
Committed 3,906
Detained 888
Diverted 18
FELONY DISENFRANCHISEMENT (2010)
Disenfranchised Population (% of State Population) 1,541,602 (10.4%)
Disenfranchised African Americans (%) 520,521 (23.3%)
Disenfranchised in Prison and Jail 110,831
Disenfranchised on Parole 4,093
Disenfranchised on Probation 103,318
Disenfranchised Post-Sentence 1,323,360
STATE CORRECTIONS EXPENDITURES (In Millions) (2012) $2,864

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State Contacts: Florida

Randall Berg
Florida Justice Institute, Inc.
3750 Miami Tower 100 S.E. Second Street Miami, FL 33131
phone: (305) 358-2081
fax: (305) 358-0910

http://www.floridajusticeinstitute.org/

Howard Simon
ACLU of Florida
4500 Biscayne Boulevard, #340 Miami FL 33137
phone: (786) 363-2700
fax: (305) 576-1106

http://www.aclufl.org


Florida - CURE
PO Box 40934 Jacksonville FL 32203
http://www.flcure.org