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April 27, 2023
US Sentencing Commission releases "geographic sentencing data" from FY22
I just saw that the US Sentencing Commission this week posted here its "geographic sentencing data" for Fiscal Year 2022. The USSC webpage has links to localized data reports that provide all sorts of fascinating "data slices" about the federal sentencing world. Here is how the webpage explains the over 100 localized reports:
These reports examine federal sentencing statistics from each judicial district, the districts within each judicial circuit, and the districts within each state. Each report compares the statistics from the respective district, circuit, or state to the nation as a whole. Each set consists of the following figure and tables:
- Figure A - Federal Offenders by Type of Crime
- Figure B - Distribution of Primary Drug Type in Federal Drug Cases
- Table 1 - Distribution of Federal Offenders by Type of Crime
- Table 2 - Guilty Pleas and Trials in Each Circuit and District
- Table 3 - Guilty Pleas and Trials by Type of Crime
- Table 4 - Sentence Type by Type of Crime (National)
- Table 5 - Sentence Type by Type of Crime (District)
- Table 6 - Incarceration Rate of U.S. Citizen Offenders Eligible for Non-Prison Sentences by Type of Crime
- Table 7 - Sentence Length by Type of Crime
- Table 8 - Sentence Imposed Relative to the Guideline Range
- Table 9 - Sentence Imposed Relative to the Guideline Range in Each Circuit and District
- Table 10 - Sentence Imposed Relative to the Guideline Range by Type of Crime
Just a few clicks on some of the circuit reports and glances at Figure A highlight some interesting (though perhaps unsurprising) data about how very different caseload mixes can be in different regions. For example, in the Fifth Circuit's district courts, nearly 60% of federal cases sentenced in FY 2022 were immigration cases, while about 20% were drug cases and less than 8% were firearm cases. But, in the First Circuit's district courts, nearly 50% of the federal cases sentenced in FY 2022 were drug cases, while nearly 13% were firearm cases and less than 6% were immigration cases.
April 27, 2023 at 10:36 AM | Permalink