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Jackson County: sentencing outcomes by charge
7,835 charge dispositions in Jackson County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 65.7% ended in incarceration. The table below breaks the county's highest-volume charge categories into incarceration rate, median confinement, adjudication-withheld rate, and diversion rate.
Aggregate analysis, data as of 2026-06-21. Reproducible from public records. No individual is identified; the source data has no judge identifier, so no claim is made about any individual judge.
Sentencing outcomes by charge category
The highest-volume charge categories in Jackson County. “Median confinement (when incarcerated)” is the typical maximum term among only the charges in that category that resulted in custody — so where the incarceration rate is low, that median describes a small subset of the category's charges, not a typical outcome for the category as a whole. It reads “—” where fewer than 10 charges in that category were incarcerated, or where the category's incarceration rate is too low for the median to be representative.
| Charge category | Charges | Incarceration | Median confinement (when incarcerated) | Adj. withheld | Diversion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drug Abuse Prevention and Control | 1,568 | 72% | 220 d | 15.9% | 1.8% |
| Driver Licenses | 1,286 | 60.4% | 45 d | 49.2% | 0.2% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 917 | 63.6% | 183 d | 23.2% | 1.6% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 746 | 64.1% | 162 d | 18.6% | 3.1% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 675 | 52.4% | 90 d | 16.4% | 1% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 436 | 75.2% | 183 d | 14% | 0.7% |
| Obstructing Justice | 433 | 83.6% | 115 d | 12.9% | 1.2% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 239 | 73.2% | 2.0 yr | 10.5% | 0.4% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 213 | 49.8% | 24 d | 63.4% | 0.5% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 200 | 73% | 122 d | 17% | 2.5% |
| Miscellaneous Crimes | 129 | 74.4% | 50 d | 38% | 0% |
| State Correctional System | 127 | 60.6% | 2.0 yr | 33.1% | 0% |
Methodology & limitations
- Source: public Florida FDLE Criminal Justice Data Transparency (CJDT) Clerk-of-Court case data, grouped by county and FDLE statute-chapter grouping. Snapshot: 2026-06-21. Every figure is reproducible from a published script against the source data.
- Median confinement: median maximum confinement term, in days, among charges that resulted in custody; reported only where at least 10 such charges exist. Charge categories with fewer than 10 charges overall are omitted.
- No judge dimension: the source data contains no judge identifier. Nothing here describes how any individual judge sentences.
- What the data does NOT show: these figures describe recorded dispositions and do not control for criminal history, offense severity within a chapter, plea posture, or case facts. A category rate is a baseline, not a prediction for any specific case. This page reports aggregates only and identifies no individual.
Comparables for a specific Jackson County charge
BenchRecon's Sentencing Comparables return the outcome distribution for a specific charge in a specific Florida county, with every figure cited to the underlying public record.