MIAMI, Florida

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• Florida has an incarceration rate of 833 per 100,000 people (including prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities), meaning that it locks up a higher percentage of its people than many wealthy democracies do.

• Each year, at least 350,000 different people are booked into local jails in Florida.

• In 2015, a total of 131 children were in adult jails or prisons in Florida.
• As of 2019, 77 percent of the youth who were prosecuted as adults in the Florida circuit were Black.
• Florida has no minimum age requirement to be tried as an adult. Every day, approximately 300 youth are held in adult jails. Florida prosecutes more children as adults than any other state in our country. In eight years — between 2009 and 2017 — this has happened 14,000 times.
• In 2017-18, more than three out of every four children transferred to the adult system in Florida were either African-American or Hispanic.

Since 1980, the number of women in jail has increased 787%, and the number of women in prison has increased 733%.

• The number of women in Florida’s prisons has increased more than sevenfold, from 856 in 1978 to 6,725 in 2017.
• The number of women in Florida’s jails has increased more than 14-fold, from 551 in 1970 to 8,031 in 2015.

In Florida, young Black males are disproportionately impacted by firearm homicide. Black males aged 15-34 have a firearm homicide rate 11 times higher than White males of the same age group.

• Florida has a firearm injury death rate of 12.7 (per 100,000).

During fiscal year 2019-20, Florida's certified domestic violence centers provided 563,721 nights of emergency shelter to 13,250 survivors of domestic violence and their children.

• 312,000 of Florida’s children have experienced the separation of a parent due to incarceration.
• In Florida, only 15.8% of incarcerated individuals reported that their children lived in the same county or an adjacent county, limiting the opportunities for in-person visits.