Of the 64,124 cases reported to the United States Sentencing Commission in fiscal year 2023, 21,504 involved non-U.S. citizens. Non-U.S. citizens accounted for 33.7% of all individuals sentenced in fiscal year 2023.
This Government Accountability Office report provides publicly available information on incarcerations of non-citizens in the U.S., not just federal facilities.
Findings include that federal agencies don't collect citizenship information for all people in state and local facilities, where about 90% of incarcerated people are held. The number of non-citizens incarcerated by the Bureau of Prisons at the end of 2022 was 33% less than at the end of 2017. The number of non-citizens sentenced for federal crimes in FY 2023 was 27% less than in FY 2018. Of the non-citizens sentenced for federal crimes in FY 2018-2023, 76% were sentenced for immigration crimes.
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