Number of individuals admitted to prison in California with gang enhancements, 2005-2025
Individuals who receive gang enhancements with multiple, different lengths are counted once under the highest sentence category. Because few people received enhancements with lengths of over 10 years (indeterminate life sentences), that category is omitted from this table and subsequent tables and figures. On average, fewer than 10% of individuals admitted with gang enhancements receive more than one gang enhancement. One-year enhancements are not established by statute; they may be errors but we present them here because they appear in the CDCR data and appear to affect official sentence lengths.
