District of Alaska

A U.S. district court in the Ninth Circuit, in Alaska. Its figures are federal cases and are never added to Alaska's.

People sentenced, FY2025: 138
Noncitizens, FY2025: 4%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 154
Detained, FY2025: 47.4%

Federal sentences

People sentenced in this court under the federal guidelines, by federal fiscal year (October to September), counted by CrimeDB from the Sentencing Commission's records. Dashed lines mark changes in federal sentencing law.

People sentenced, FY2002 to FY2025

FY2003: PROTECT Act, April 30, 2003: appeals courts review departures from the guidelines anew, and the Commission must cut downward departures.
FY2005: United States v. Booker, January 12, 2005: the guidelines become advisory, so FY2005 holds sentences from before and after.
FY2008: Gall and Kimbrough, December 10, 2007: judges may sentence outside the range with less reason given, including over the crack to powder ratio.
FY2010: Fair Sentencing Act, August 3, 2010: crack cocaine thresholds rise and the crack to powder ratio falls from 100 to 1 to about 18 to 1.
FY2019: First Step Act, December 21, 2018: a wider safety valve, no more stacked gun counts, and the crack changes made retroactive.
FY2024: Guideline amendments of November 1, 2023: fewer criminal history points for offenses committed under supervision, and a lower range for people with none.

Sentence type and length, FY2025

Share of people sentenced
Prison only	72%100	100
Prison and alternatives	11%15	15
Probation and alternatives	1%2	2
Probation only	14%20	20
Fine only	1%1	1

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 60 months (mean 81) for the 115 sentenced to prison, 1 of them to life; life and anything over 470 months count as 470, as the Commission counts them.

Percent sentenced to prison, FY2002 to FY2025

Median prison term in months, FY2002 to FY2025

FY2018: From FY2018 the Commission counts a sentence of time served with no amount given as one day of prison; before, it left those out of the prison term. Counted that way, FY2017's national median prison term would be 24 months, not 27.

People sentenced by offense, FY2025

Share of people sentenced
Drug Trafficking	29%40	40
Firearms	16%22	22
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	12%17	17
Environmental	8%11	11
Money Launder	8%11	11
Sex Abuse	7%10	10
Child Pornography	4%6	6
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	4%5	5
Robbery	3%4	4
Assault	2%3	3
Stalking/Harassing	2%3	3
Other	1%2	2
Administration of Justice	1%1	1
Manslaughter	1%1	1
Murder	1%1	1
Tax	1%1	1

All 138 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

People sentenced in the District of Alaska by offense, FY2018 to FY2025

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	66	67	35	50	63	69	57	40
Firearms	46	57	42	48	32	38	19	22
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	30	18	5	8	5	10	12	17
Money Launder	9	12	6	3	4	13	7	11
Child Pornography	19	6	4	4	5	3	5	6
Robbery	9	12	2	8	3	3	10	4
Sex Abuse	5	4	2	4	9	5	9	10
Environmental	0	7	3	3	5	8	3	11
Assault	3	0	1	4	3	3	0	3
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	0	0	1	2	0	1	4	5
Other	1	0	1	3	1	2	3	2
Murder	0	0	0	1	2	8	0	1
Stalking/Harassing	2	2	1	1	2	1	0	3
Administration of Justice	2	1	1	3	0	1	1	1
Bribery/Corruption	0	0	0	2	3	2	2	0
Tax	0	3	2	2	0	1	0	1
Kidnapping	1	0	0	1	0	5	0	0
Prison Offenses	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	0
Immigration	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	0
Burglary/Trespass	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
Drug Possession	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
Individual Rights	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
National Defense	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All offenses	197	193	108	148	140	177	136	138

By the Commission's offense type for these years (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

Earlier years, under the Commission's older offense types, are in the tables at the foot of the page.

People sentenced by citizenship, FY2025

Share of people sentenced
U.S. citizen	96%132	132
Not a U.S. citizen	4%5	5
Citizenship not known	1%1	1

0 of the 138 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
White+MENA, 7 placed by CrimeDB	43%59	59
AIAN, 4 placed by CrimeDB	22%30	30
Black, 1 placed by CrimeDB	17%23	23
Hispanic, 1 placed by CrimeDB	10%14	14
Asian+NHPI	8%11	11
Race unknown	1%1	1

Race and Hispanic origin as each person told the probation officer
Race recorded without ethnicity: split by the source's own recorded Hispanic share of each race

All 138 people sentenced. Race and Hispanic origin as each person told the probation officer. Hispanic is of any race; the other groups are not Hispanic. White+MENA includes Middle Eastern and North African people. USSC recorded a race and no Hispanic origin for 13 people in FY2025: each keeps that race, and CrimeDB placed only their Hispanic origin, the lighter part.

People sentenced by criminal history category, FY2025

People sentenced by criminal history category, FY2025
I	41%56	56
II	15%21	21
III	15%21	21
IV	9%12	12
V	8%11	11
VI	12%16	16
Category not known	1%1	1

All 138 people sentenced. By the category the court found, I (least) to VI (most), from points for prior sentences under the guidelines.

Sentences against the guideline range, FY2025

Sentences against the guideline range, FY2025
Within the range	32%44	44
Above the range	6%8	8
Below the range, government-sponsored	41%57	57
Below the range, not government-sponsored	20%28	28
Not known or not comparable	1%1	1

All 138 people sentenced. In the Commission's four groups. Government-sponsored: the prosecutor moved for it, for substantial assistance, early disposition, or another reason.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Pretrial release and detention

Defendants whose pretrial services case opened in the fiscal year, and the percent detained and never released before trial, as U.S. Courts prints them. Table H-14 counts every case, H-14A leaves out immigration cases, and H-14B, from FY2022, leaves out the cases U.S. Courts classes as illegal alien cases.

Percent detained, all cases (H-14), FY2006 to FY2025

Pretrial release and detention, FY2025

Which cases	Table	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
All cases	H-14	154	73	81	47.4%	52.6%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	150	71	79	47.3%	52.7%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	149	70	79	47.0%	53.0%

Detained: detained and never released before trial, as U.S. Courts prints it.

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B.

Every figure as a table

People sentenced in the District of Alaska, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	165	128	36	1	11
FY2003	157	131	20	6	7
FY2004	193	149	36	8	12
FY2005	210	169	30	11	6
FY2006	146	125	17	4	5
FY2007	132	112	11	9	7
FY2008	169	136	27	6	10
FY2009	184	158	16	10	8
FY2010	158	137	15	6	10
FY2011	153	125	26	2	13
FY2012	211	185	18	8	4
FY2013	200	176	12	12	3
FY2014	156	135	14	7	2
FY2015	165	150	15	0	3
FY2016	182	168	14	0	2
FY2017	179	175	3	1	0
FY2018	197	184	10	3	0
FY2019	193	187	5	1	0
FY2020	108	106	2	0	0
FY2021	148	139	8	1	0
FY2022	140	130	9	1	0
FY2023	177	165	11	1	2
FY2024	136	128	7	1	3
FY2025	138	132	5	1	0

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Immigration offenses are the Commission's offense type for the year (OFFTYPE2 to FY2009, OFFTYPSB to FY2017, OFFGUIDE from FY2018).

Sentence type in the District of Alaska, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	Prison only	Prison and alternatives	Probation and alternatives	Probation only	Fine only	Type not known	Sentenced to prison	Life sentences
FY2002	165	104	19	12	29	0	1	75%	0
FY2003*	157	113	5	7	32	0	0	75%	0
FY2004	193	145	7	7	33	0	1	79%	1
FY2005*	210	158	1	12	37	2	0	76%	0
FY2006	146	113	2	10	19	1	1	79%	0
FY2007	132	93	4	5	24	4	2	75%	0
FY2008*	169	140	3	9	16	1	0	85%	0
FY2009	184	140	5	9	29	1	0	79%	0
FY2010*	158	123	3	7	22	3	0	80%	1
FY2011	153	130	4	7	12	0	0	88%	1
FY2012	211	168	2	6	33	2	0	81%	1
FY2013	200	168	3	7	20	2	0	86%	0
FY2014	156	118	2	7	28	1	0	77%	1
FY2015	165	133	4	5	22	1	0	83%	1
FY2016	182	140	3	6	31	2	0	79%	1
FY2017	179	155	6	4	13	1	0	90%	0
FY2018	197	173	13	3	6	2	0	94%	1
FY2019*	193	162	15	7	8	1	0	92%	0
FY2020	108	90	9	3	6	0	0	92%	0
FY2021	148	125	9	0	14	0	0	91%	0
FY2022	140	127	3	0	10	0	0	93%	0
FY2023	177	146	11	1	18	1	0	89%	6
FY2024*	136	122	4	3	5	2	0	93%	0
FY2025	138	100	15	2	20	1	0	83%	1

USSC's sentence types (SENTIMP). Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. Sentenced to prison: prison only, or prison and alternatives, of those whose type is known.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

Sentence length in the District of Alaska, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	48	24	164	62	37	123
FY2003*	43	30	157	56	41	118
FY2004	48	27	192	60	41	152
FY2005*	48	30	210	63	40	159
FY2006	56	33	145	70	46	115
FY2007	55	30	130	73	51	97
FY2008*	60	41	169	71	54	143
FY2009	54	37	184	69	60	144
FY2010*	56	37	158	70	48	125
FY2011	53	40	153	65	49	124
FY2012	55	35	211	68	50	169
FY2013	52	38	200	62	46	166
FY2014	56	30	156	73	52	119
FY2015	59	33	165	72	46	135
FY2016	54	36	182	68	53	142
FY2017	47	35	179	54	44	156
FY2018	74	48	197	78	58	186
FY2019*	61	48	193	67	54	177
FY2020	55	32	108	60	36	99
FY2021	53	36	148	58	39	134
FY2022	66	42	140	71	51	130
FY2023	77	44	177	87	57	157
FY2024*	71	37	136	77	44	126
FY2025	67	51	138	81	60	115

Sentence: prison and alternative confinement, with probation and fines as zero (USSC's sentence length). Prison term: prison alone, for those sentenced to prison (USSC's length of imprisonment). Life and anything over 470 months count as 470, as USSC counts them.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

FY2018: From FY2018 the Commission counts a sentence of time served with no amount given as one day of prison; before, it left those out of the prison term. Counted that way, FY2017's national median prison term would be 24 months, not 27.

People sentenced in the District of Alaska by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	58	46	82	70	53	44	79	86
Firearms	9	21	25	28	27	18	20	27
Fraud	24	21	23	20	21	12	13	15
Larceny	17	31	13	8	8	5	3	2
Immigration	11	7	12	6	5	7	10	8
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	3	2	2	15	4	7	9	11
Pornography/Prostitution	2	3	4	11	6	4	6	6
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	2	2	4	4	8	7	4	8
Embezzlement	5	4	3	1	2	9	3	8
Forgery/Counterfeiting	16	2	0	6	1	3	2	1
Robbery	1	4	8	5	4	3	4	1
Money Laundering	3	6	4	9	1	1	2	2
Administration of Justice	9	4	0	6	2	2	1	1
Drugs - Simple Possession	2	0	2	2	3	2	3	2
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	12	0	0	0	0
Tax Offenses	0	0	3	4	0	1	2	2
Assault	1	2	1	1	0	1	1	1
Racketeering/Extortion	2	1	0	0	0	0	4	0
Sexual Abuse	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	1
Prison Offenses	0	0	1	0	1	3	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
Bribery	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Auto Theft	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
All offenses	165	157	193	210	146	132	169	184

By the Commission's offense type for these years (OFFTYPE2). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

People sentenced in the District of Alaska by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	65	71	107	85	67	66	62	74
Firearms	19	18	37	33	24	21	27	32
Fraud	14	11	4	19	16	19	21	18
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	3	6	11	12	10	6	19	2
Money Laundering	1	5	19	14	9	7	8	1
Child Pornography	5	7	2	9	7	8	13	12
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	8	4	8	2	4	6	3	7
Larceny	6	5	8	7	4	1	2	5
Immigration	10	13	4	3	2	3	2	0
Robbery	5	5	4	2	1	2	5	6
Administration of Justice	0	2	1	1	4	5	5	4
Embezzlement	5	2	0	0	2	1	3	5
Tax Offenses	2	1	0	6	1	1	2	0
Assault	1	0	1	2	0	4	1	2
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	3	0	0	0	0	3	1	4
Prison Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	4	5	2
Sexual Abuse	2	1	3	0	0	1	0	2
Drugs - Simple Possession	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	1
Bribery	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	1
Forgery/Counterfeiting	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	1
Murder	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
Auto Theft	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Racketeering/Extortion	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
All offenses	158	153	211	200	156	165	182	179

By the Commission's offense type for these years (OFFTYPSB). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

People sentenced in the District of Alaska by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	40	29%
Firearms	22	16%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	17	12%
Environmental	11	8%
Money Launder	11	8%
Sex Abuse	10	7%
Child Pornography	6	4%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	5	4%
Robbery	4	3%
Assault	3	2%
Stalking/Harassing	3	2%
Other	2	1%
Administration of Justice	1	1%
Manslaughter	1	1%
Murder	1	1%
Tax	1	1%

All 138 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

People sentenced in the District of Alaska by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
White+MENA	59	7	43%
AIAN	30	4	22%
Black	23	1	17%
Hispanic	14	1	10%
Asian+NHPI	11	0	8%
Race unknown	1	0	1%

All 138 people sentenced.

Hispanic is of any race; the other groups are not Hispanic. White+MENA includes Middle Eastern and North African people.

USSC recorded a race and no Hispanic origin for 13 people in FY2025: each keeps that race, and CrimeDB placed only their Hispanic origin, the lighter part.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Of which placed by CrimeDB: the part of each group CrimeDB placed (race recorded without ethnicity: split by the source's own recorded Hispanic share of each race); the rest of each group is as USSC recorded it.

People sentenced in the District of Alaska by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	56	41%
II	21	15%
III	21	15%
IV	12	9%
V	11	8%
VI	16	12%
Category not known	1	1%

All 138 people sentenced.

The category the court found (XCRHISSR), I (least) to VI (most).

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Sentences in the District of Alaska against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	44	32%
Above the range	8	6%
Below the range, government-sponsored	57	41%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	28	20%
Not known or not comparable	1	1%

All 138 people sentenced.

The Commission's four groups (SENTRNGE collapsed as its Sourcebook does).

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Pretrial release and detention in the District of Alaska, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	177	86	91	48.6%	51.4%
FY2007	184	104	80	56.5%	43.5%
FY2008	198	103	95	52.0%	48.0%
FY2009	164	95	69	57.9%	42.1%
FY2010	164	88	76	53.7%	46.3%
FY2011	184	123	61	66.8%	33.2%
FY2012	174	111	63	63.8%	36.2%
FY2013	198	92	106	46.5%	53.5%
FY2014	117	72	45	61.5%	38.5%
FY2015	171	90	81	52.6%	47.4%
FY2016	188	129	59	68.6%	31.4%
FY2017	191	142	49	74.3%	25.7%
FY2018	219	147	72	67.1%	32.9%
FY2019	169	106	63	62.7%	37.3%
FY2020	139	80	59	57.6%	42.4%
FY2021	153	76	77	49.7%	50.3%
FY2022	130	55	75	42.3%	57.7%
FY2023	148	77	71	52.0%	48.0%
FY2024	177	79	98	44.6%	55.4%
FY2025	154	73	81	47.4%	52.6%

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B, as printed.

Pretrial release and detention in the District of Alaska, excluding immigration cases (Table H-14A)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	168	80	88	47.6%	52.4%
FY2007	175	96	79	54.9%	45.1%
FY2008	196	101	95	51.5%	48.5%
FY2009	160	91	69	56.9%	43.1%
FY2010	152	76	76	50.0%	50.0%
FY2011	180	119	61	66.1%	33.9%
FY2012	172	109	63	63.4%	36.6%
FY2013	195	89	106	45.6%	54.4%
FY2014	116	72	44	62.1%	37.9%
FY2015	170	89	81	52.4%	47.6%
FY2016	187	128	59	68.4%	31.6%
FY2017	190	141	49	74.2%	25.8%
FY2018	219	147	72	67.1%	32.9%
FY2019	168	105	63	62.5%	37.5%
FY2020	139	80	59	57.6%	42.4%
FY2021	152	76	76	50.0%	50.0%
FY2022	130	55	75	42.3%	57.7%
FY2023	147	76	71	51.7%	48.3%
FY2024	176	78	98	44.3%	55.7%
FY2025	150	71	79	47.3%	52.7%

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B, as printed.

Pretrial release and detention in the District of Alaska, excluding illegal alien cases (Table H-14B)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	129	54	75	41.9%	58.1%
FY2023	148	77	71	52.0%	48.0%
FY2024	175	77	98	44.0%	56.0%
FY2025	149	70	79	47.0%	53.0%

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B, as printed.