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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 66,662 cases reported to the Commission in fiscal year 2025, 1,170 involved money laundering. Money laundering offenses have increased 41% since fiscal year 2021. 1,2 Click the cover for the PDF handout or learn more below. Individual and Offense Characteristics 77% of individuals sentenced...
- Of the 66,662 cases reported to the Commission in fiscal year 2025, 16,234 involved drugs. 1 Of those, 16,144 cases involved drug trafficking; 2 22% of such cases involved fentanyl, up 135% since fiscal year 2021. 3, 4 Click the cover for the PDF handout or learn more below. Individual and Offense...
(May 2026) This report provides an analysis of the compassionate release motions filed with the courts.
(May 2026) 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 2026) These reports compare FY 2025 federal sentencing statistics for each judicial district, judicial circuit, and state to the nation as a whole.
(May 2026) The preliminary data in these reports present selected quarterly sentencing information submitted to the Commission by the U.S. Courts.
(July 2025) These annual reports provide data on the frequency of application of specific guidelines, including increases for aggravating factors and decreases for mitigating factors.
(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.
This data briefing is intended to inform public comment on a proposed amendment regarding human smuggling offenses. Deadline: March 18, 2026.
This data handout is intended to inform public comment on a proposed circuit conflicts amendment. Deadline: March 18, 2026
This data briefing is intended to inform public comment on a proposed amendment relating to individuals sentenced under the career offender guideline. Deadline: March 18, 2026.
The 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 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.
(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.