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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.
- Of the 61,678 cases reported to the Commission in fiscal year 2024, 18,150 involved drugs. 1 Of those, 18,029 cases involved drug trafficking; 2 20.2% of such cases involved fentanyl, up 255.7% since fiscal year 2020. 3, 4 Click the cover for the PDF handout or learn more below. Individual and...
- Of the 61,678 cases reported to the Commission in fiscal year 2024, 18,150 involved drugs. 1 Of those, 18,029 cases involved drug trafficking. 2 Seven drug types account for 98.3% of drug trafficking offenses. Quick Facts provide an overview of these offenses, though this information may vary...
(May 2025) This report provides an analysis of the compassionate release motions filed with the courts.
(May 2025) 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.
(April 2025) The preliminary data in these reports present selected quarterly sentencing information submitted to the Commission by the U.S. Courts.
(April 2025) These reports compare FY 2024 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.
(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.
(March 2025) In 2025, the Commission completed a study of federal drug trafficking offenses that involved an overdose.
(September 2024) This report provides information on individuals sentenced for offenses using cryptocurrency, the dark web, and hacking for fiscal years 2014 through 2021.
(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.
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.
Commission staff prepared data to inform public comment on a proposal relating to drug offenses under §2D1.1.
Commission staff prepared data to inform public comment on a proposal relating to the treatment of machinegun conversion devices under the §2K2.1 guideline.
Commission staff prepared data to inform public comment on a proposal relating to career offenders.