66,662
2025 (latest)
FEDERAL OFFENDERS SENTENCED
felony and Class A misdemeanor cases with an individual sentenced · 2002–2025 · neither direction is "better" · United States Sentencing Commission, Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics
64,366
2002
86,201
high · 2011
57,287
low · 2021
+4%
since 2002
┊ dashed lines mark 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. Number of federal felony and Class A misdemeanor cases in which an individual was sentenced in the fiscal year, read from each year's own Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics overview page (the Commission's own headline count of cases it received documentation on for that fiscal year). Breaks: Booker (2005) changed mandatory guideline practice; 2018 Sourcebook changed variables and presentation. Counts are individual sentencing events documented to USSC, not unique people; annual documentation deadlines may differ.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook-2025
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2002
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2003
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2004
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2005
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2006
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2007
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2008
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2009
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2010
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2011
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2012
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2013
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2014
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2015
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2016
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2017
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2018
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2019
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2020
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2021
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2022
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2023
- https://www.ussc.gov/research/sourcebook/archive/sourcebook-2024
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Crime-And-Justice
Data
| Year | Federal offenders sentenced | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66,662 | +8% |
| 2024 | 61,678 | −4% |
| 2023 | 64,124 | −0% |
| 2022 | 64,142 | +12% |
| 2021 | 57,287 | −11% |
| 2020 | 64,565 | −16% |
| 2019 | 76,538 | +10% |
| 2018 | 69,425 | +4% |
| 2017 | 66,873 | −1% |
| 2016 | 67,742 | −5% |
| 2015 | 71,003 | −6% |
| 2014 | 75,836 | −5% |
| 2013 | 80,035 | −5% |
| 2012 | 84,173 | −2% |
| 2011 | 86,201 | +3% |
| 2010 | 83,946 | +3% |
| 2009 | 81,372 | +6% |
| 2008 | 76,478 | +5% |
| 2007 | 72,868 | +0% |
| 2006 | 72,585 | +0% |
| 2005 | 72,462 | +3% |
| 2004 | 70,068 | −0% |
| 2003 | 70,258 | +9% |
| 2002 | 64,366 | — |
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