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Federal Sentencing Statistics
Sourcebooks contain descriptive statistics on the application of the federal sentencing guidelines and provides selected district, circuit, and national sentencing data. The Interactive Data Analyzer (IDA) is an online tool that can be used to explore, filter, customize, and visualize federal sentencing data for research, policymaking, and sentencing purposes.
(June 2024) This publication examines trends in the prevalence of federal methamphetamine trafficking sentences, and the purity levels of methamphetamine trafficked in the United States.
(December 2023) This report provides an analysis of the federally sentenced individuals in fiscal year 2021 by educational attainment.
(November 2023) A report updating the Commission's data analysis concerning demographic differences in federal sentencing practices.
(July 2024) These retroactivity reports present data on either: 1) the potential impact of retroactive application of a guideline amendment, or 2) motions for a reduced sentence considered as a result of a retroactive federal statute or guideline amendment.
(June 2024) The preliminary data in these reports present selected quarterly sentencing information submitted to the Commission by the U.S. Courts.
(June 2024) This report provides an analysis of the compassionate release motions filed with the courts.
(May 2024) These annual reports provide data on the frequency of application of specific guidelines, including increases for aggravating factors and decreases for mitigating factors.
(April 2024) These reports compare FY 2023 federal sentencing statistics for each judicial district, judicial circuit, and state to the nation as a whole.
(July 2024) When possible, the Commission performs sentencing and prison impact reports as part of its consideration of amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines and when requested by Congress.
Commission staff prepared data to inform public comment on a proposal relating to youthful individuals.
Commission staff prepared a data supplement to inform public comment on a proposal relating to simplification.
Commission staff prepared a data presentation to inform public comment on a proposed amendment related to criminal history and the Commission’s implementation of 28 U.S.C. § 994(j).
The Commission's individual datafiles provide information on the sentences imposed in cases involving individuals. In these datafiles the individual is the unit of analysis. These datafiles do not contain information from the Commission's Organizational, Resentencing, or Appeals Databases.
The Commission's organizational datafiles provide information on the sentences imposed in cases involving organizations (i.e., corporations, partnerships, and other entities having a legal existence separate from the individuals having an interest in them).
Commission datafiles that are used in various reports to Congress. These datafiles may contain information collected during a special coding project performed for a particular report and, therefore, will not be available in the Commission's fiscal year datafiles.
- Of the 64,124 cases reported to the Commission in fiscal year 2023, 18,106 involved immigration offenses. [1] Of those cases, 26.1% involved alien smuggling (up 35.7% since FY 2019). [2] , [3] Click the cover for the PDF handout or learn more below. Individual and Offense Characteristics 76.8% of...
- Of the 64,124 cases reported to the Commission in fiscal year 2023, 19,066 involved drugs. [1] Of those, 18,939 cases involved drug trafficking; [2] 5.3% of such cases involved heroin (down 59.7% since FY 2019). [3] Click the cover for the PDF handout or learn more below. Individual and Offense...
