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Use, possession, manufacture, delivery, transportation, advertisement, or retail sale of drug paraphernalia, specified machines, and materialsFla. Stat. § 893.147

Criminal sentencing outcomes across 66 Florida counties, 195,710 charges recorded, 2018–2026.

What Fla. Stat. § 893.147 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 66 counties with enough records to publish a rate, the median is 0.1%.

CountyCharges recordedState prison, per 100 charges recorded
Alachua County1,5100.7%
Baker County4800.6%
Bay County12,4450.1%
Bradford County4690.0%
Broward County1,2231.0%
Calhoun County3680.0%
Charlotte County4,6212.9%
Citrus County3,2990.0%
Clay County1,7530.3%
Collier County2,5560.4%
Columbia County1,0050.0%
Desoto County1,3550.0%
Dixie County3890.5%
Duval County12,6300.2%
Escambia County7,1520.0%
Flagler County1440.0%
Franklin County2570.0%
Gadsden County650.0%
Gilchrist County1870.0%
Glades County1041.9%
Gulf County3160.6%
Hamilton County1080.0%
Hardee County8190.0%
Hendry County5751.7%
Hernando County2,9030.0%
Highlands County1,8233.3%
Hillsborough County14,1920.0%
Holmes County8560.2%
Indian River County1,7040.1%
Jackson County5720.5%
Jefferson County3210.0%
Lafayette County1330.0%
Lake County1,9400.0%
Lee County3,3920.1%
Leon County2,1510.1%
Levy County4850.6%
Liberty County2720.0%
Madison County1404.3%
Manatee County2,7890.1%
Marion County5,8700.1%
Martin County1,5180.5%
Miami-Dade County3,7798.6%
Monroe County8130.9%
Nassau County9240.3%
Okaloosa County5,0720.1%
Okeechobee County8510.2%
Orange County5,6390.1%
Osceola County1,5441.0%
Palm Beach County9,6140.1%
Pasco County5,7552.3%
Pinellas County9,7380.1%
Polk County16,8540.0%
Putnam County2,1080.2%
Santa Rosa County3,4010.4%
Sarasota County5,2270.2%
Seminole County2,8080.0%
St. Johns County2,4110.0%
St. Lucie County2,3940.0%
Sumter County3,0240.0%
Suwannee County3750.0%
Taylor County3560.6%
Union County1060.9%
Volusia County16,0110.1%
Wakulla County3600.0%
Walton County9420.2%
Washington County7130.0%

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

Read Fla. Stat. § 893.147 at the source →

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