Admissions with gun enhancements, conviction years 2014-2025

Because enhancements are applied at sentencing, “admissions” and “admission year” throughout this report refer to the year that individuals were convicted. If someone was convicted in 2018 but admitted in 2019, that individual would be included in the 2018 count. This is a different measurement than typical “admission year” counts produced by CDCR and CPL, and should not be compared directly to such counts. Additionally, not all convictions for 2025 have yet appeared in CDCR data due to the typical delay between conviction and admission to prison; totals for these recent years are therefore not complete counts of the convictions for those years. For this reason, calculations of changes in absolute numbers of admissions from 2014–present use 2024 instead of 2025.
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