Ownership, lease, rental, or possession for trafficking in or manufacturing a controlled substanceFla. Stat. § 893.1351
Criminal sentencing outcomes across 41 Florida counties, 1,601 charges recorded, 2018–2026.
What Fla. Stat. § 893.1351 covers
Chapter 893 of the Florida Statutes — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control. A single statute can span several offences at different degrees, and the figures on this page pool every degree. No single rate here is the rate for any one degree.
How often did this charge end in state prison, by county?
Sorted alphabetically, never worst-first. Every rate below has one denominator and it is stated in the column heading: all charges recorded, not convictions. A rate computed on convictions would be higher, and mixing the two is why the same statute can appear to have different “worst counties” on different pages. Across the 21 counties with enough records to publish a rate, the median is 67.2%.
| County | Charges recorded | State prison, per 100 charges recorded |
|---|---|---|
| Alachua County | 71 | 84.5% |
| Citrus County | 31 | 83.9% |
| Duval County | 64 | 67.2% |
| Hendry County | 21 | 66.7% |
| Hernando County | 83 | 79.5% |
| Highlands County | 45 | 55.6% |
| Hillsborough County | 54 | 51.9% |
| Lake County | 12 | 50.0% |
| Lee County | 22 | 77.3% |
| Leon County | 12 | 41.7% |
| Manatee County | 48 | 77.1% |
| Marion County | 54 | 87.0% |
| Miami-Dade County | 617 | 48.5% |
| Orange County | 11 | 27.3% |
| Palm Beach County | 86 | 43.0% |
| Pasco County | 29 | 62.1% |
| Polk County | 54 | 85.2% |
| Sarasota County | 15 | 66.7% |
| St. Johns County | 77 | 92.2% |
| Sumter County | 65 | 80.0% |
| Volusia County | 60 | 71.7% |
Counties with too few records to publish a sentencing rate (20)
Fewer than 10 records each. The count is published; the rate is not.
- Bradford County 6 cases
- Clay County 4 cases
- Collier County 2 cases
- Columbia County 4 cases
- Desoto County 2 cases
- Escambia County 1 case
- Gilchrist County 2 cases
- Glades County 2 cases
- Hardee County 3 cases
- Indian River County 5 cases
- Jackson County 5 cases
- Madison County 1 case
- Martin County 1 case
- Nassau County 1 case
- Osceola County 8 cases
- Pinellas County 6 cases
- Putnam County 7 cases
- Seminole County 4 cases
- St. Lucie County 5 cases
- Union County 1 case
Source, window and the n≥10 floor
Florida Clerk of Courts public records, under Fla. Stat. § 900.05. Window: 2018–2026. A sentencing rate is published for a county only where that county has at least 10 records for this charge. Percentages are weighted by case count. Where the categories on a county page sum to less than 100%, the remainder is a sentence not recorded in the public extract, and that county page names it.
The statute
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