Published on: Thursday, April 27, 2023

Earlier this week, the United States Sentencing Commission released its 2022 Federal Sentencing Statistics, available here.  The data covers sentencings from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022.   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 of reports consisists of the following firgures 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