Prison admissions with gun enhancements by enhancement status, conviction years 2014-2025
This stacked bar chart tracks the total number of admissions with gun enhancements, categorized by their status: "Active" means that all sentence enhancements, including gun enhancements and other types of offense enhancements, on the individual’s sentence are adding time to the sentence (shown in dark blue), "Stayed" means that all enhancements, including gun and other types of enhancements, on the individual’s sentence are stayed (shown in light blue), and "Both" (means that the person has some active and some stayed enhancements, but that at least one of the active enhancements is a gun enhancement) for conviction years 2014-2025.
The total number of admissions with gun enhancements was at its highest between 2014 and 2017, consistently exceeding 2,000 per year. Following the implementation of SB 620, totals began a steady decline, reaching a low point of approximately 1,050 in 2020. Admissions saw a slight rebound to nearly 1,900 in 2023 before trending downward again to about 1,200 in 2025.
Across all years, "Active" enhancements (dark blue) represent the vast majority of the total. A note clarifies that "stayed" enhancements do not have a practical effect on sentence length and suggests that a small portion of "stayed-only" admissions (roughly 6%) may represent data entry errors.