Nearly One-Third Of Florida Prison Inmates Are Age 50 Or Older

State-level data show that 28.7% of Florida prisoners are "elderly" as of 2022. State law defines people in prison as elderly if they are age 50 or older. In the state, the absolute number of people and proportion of the 50-plus group who are 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, and 75-plus years increased by 0.9% between 2018 and 2022. For those ages 50 to 59, the population declined by 13.9% among those ages 50 to 54 and by 6.1% among those ages 55 to 59. However, for the 60 to 64 age . . .