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Putnam County: sentencing outcomes by charge
20,616 charge dispositions in Putnam County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 67% 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 Putnam 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 | 5,730 | 81% | 120 d | 17.1% | 4.2% |
| Driver Licenses | 2,886 | 40.3% | 26 d | 32.1% | 6.3% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 2,349 | 59.3% | 150 d | 16.7% | 13.3% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 2,038 | 65.6% | 210 d | 10.9% | 9.4% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 1,335 | 50.6% | 70 d | 23.2% | 3.1% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 1,101 | 86.1% | 72 d | 6.4% | 2.2% |
| Obstructing Justice | 989 | 84.4% | 56 d | 11.8% | 2.5% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 486 | 74.1% | 2.0 yr | 13% | 4.5% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 443 | 67% | 65 d | 11.3% | 9% |
| Marriage; Domestic Violence | 406 | 79.8% | 64 d | 5.2% | 2.2% |
| Abuse of Children | 315 | 72.4% | 4.2 yr | 13.7% | 3.5% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 302 | 46% | 25 d | 26.2% | 3% |
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 Putnam 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.