District of Guam

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 35
Noncitizens, FY2025: 9%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 32
Detained, FY2025: 34.4%

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	89%31	31
Prison and alternatives	6%2	2
Probation only	6%2	2

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 48 months (mean 65) for the 33 sentenced to prison; 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	40%14	14
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	11%4	4
Sex Abuse	11%4	4
Administration of Justice	9%3	3
Firearms	6%2	2
Money Launder	6%2	2
Burglary/Trespass	3%1	1
Extortion/Racketeering	3%1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	3%1	1
Other	3%1	1
Prison Offenses	3%1	1
Stalking/Harassing	3%1	1

All 35 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	20	15	12	17	12	12	20	14
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	16	15	9	11	4	6	9	4
Firearms	2	6	6	3	0	2	2	2
Immigration	1	7	6	1	3	3	0	0
Money Launder	0	0	3	1	2	2	2	2
Sex Abuse	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	4
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	0	1	2	0	0	0	2	1
Administration of Justice	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
Child Pornography	1	0	0	0	1	1	2	0
Environmental	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	0
Other	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1
Stalking/Harassing	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1
Bribery/Corruption	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Prison Offenses	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Tax	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Antitrust	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Assault	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Extortion/Racketeering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Individual Rights	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Robbery	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
All offenses	44	49	42	37	26	26	39	35

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	91%32	32
Not a U.S. citizen	9%3	3
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

0 of the 35 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Asian+NHPI, 1 placed by CrimeDB	86%30	30
White+MENA	11%4	4
Black	3%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 35 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 1 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	74%26	26
II	11%4	4
III	3%1	1
V	9%3	3
VI	3%1	1

All 35 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	43%15	15
Above the range	3%1	1
Below the range, government-sponsored	46%16	16
Below the range, not government-sponsored	9%3	3

All 35 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	32	11	21	34.4%	65.6%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	32	11	21	34.4%	65.6%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	27	8	19	29.6%	70.4%

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 Guam, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	139	72	59	8	32
FY2003	95	55	40	0	24
FY2004	83	43	39	1	22
FY2005	106	66	39	1	15
FY2006	82	53	29	0	16
FY2007	68	43	24	1	17
FY2008	68	50	18	0	8
FY2009	62	44	18	0	5
FY2010	58	46	10	2	3
FY2011	54	42	10	2	4
FY2012	59	48	11	0	5
FY2013	68	54	12	2	4
FY2014	99	87	12	0	1
FY2015	91	80	11	0	2
FY2016	67	52	15	0	4
FY2017	55	47	8	0	1
FY2018	44	38	6	0	1
FY2019	49	38	11	0	7
FY2020	42	35	7	0	6
FY2021	37	34	3	0	1
FY2022	26	20	6	0	3
FY2023	26	23	3	0	3
FY2024	39	36	3	0	0
FY2025	35	32	3	0	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 Guam, 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	139	105	6	4	21	3	0	80%	0
FY2003*	95	73	3	1	16	1	1	81%	0
FY2004	83	62	3	5	13	0	0	78%	0
FY2005*	106	80	7	3	15	1	0	82%	2
FY2006	82	72	0	2	8	0	0	88%	0
FY2007	68	50	0	1	17	0	0	74%	0
FY2008*	68	40	1	5	22	0	0	60%	0
FY2009	62	37	1	2	21	1	0	61%	0
FY2010*	58	29	2	5	21	1	0	53%	0
FY2011	54	24	7	4	18	1	0	57%	0
FY2012	59	31	2	3	23	0	0	56%	1
FY2013	68	35	1	4	28	0	0	53%	0
FY2014	99	64	6	3	25	1	0	71%	0
FY2015	91	49	6	10	26	0	0	60%	0
FY2016	67	37	4	2	24	0	0	61%	0
FY2017	55	37	1	2	15	0	0	69%	1
FY2018	44	34	2	1	7	0	0	82%	0
FY2019*	49	24	2	2	21	0	0	53%	0
FY2020	42	32	0	1	9	0	0	76%	0
FY2021	37	28	1	0	8	0	0	78%	0
FY2022	26	20	0	0	6	0	0	77%	0
FY2023	26	20	0	0	6	0	0	77%	0
FY2024*	39	37	0	0	2	0	0	95%	0
FY2025	35	31	2	0	2	0	0	94%	0

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 Guam, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	32	7	139	40	16	109
FY2003*	30	11	94	36	23	76
FY2004	20	6	83	26	11	63
FY2005*	35	10	106	42	14	87
FY2006	46	31	82	52	37	72
FY2007	19	5	68	27	14	48
FY2008*	16	3	68	26	7	41
FY2009	31	7	62	51	25	38
FY2010*	31	4	58	62	37	29
FY2011	16	3	54	31	11	26
FY2012	32	0	59	61	37	30
FY2013	29	3	68	57	32	34
FY2014	29	19	99	41	25	67
FY2015	22	8	91	35	24	54
FY2016	23	6	67	39	18	39
FY2017	44	12	55	67	37	36
FY2018	39	27	44	46	33	36
FY2019*	21	4	49	38	29	26
FY2020	31	10	42	40	18	32
FY2021	35	30	37	44	37	29
FY2022	62	50	26	81	68	20
FY2023	37	30	26	48	39	20
FY2024*	57	36	39	60	41	37
FY2025	61	37	35	65	48	33

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 Guam by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	47	36	19	40	35	14	9	15
Immigration	32	24	22	15	16	17	8	5
Larceny	16	11	3	6	5	13	12	4
Fraud	7	5	13	11	4	4	10	11
Firearms	14	4	6	5	3	10	9	10
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	8	1	7	9	3	7	9	2
Administration of Justice	5	0	2	5	5	2	6	5
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	1	0	4	2	0	0	2	8
Money Laundering	1	3	0	6	5	0	0	0
Embezzlement	2	2	0	3	0	0	0	1
Bribery	0	2	2	1	0	0	2	0
Forgery/Counterfeiting	0	4	3	0	0	0	0	0
Pornography/Prostitution	0	0	1	1	3	0	0	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1
Assault	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Racketeering/Extortion	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Tax Offenses	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Antitrust Violations	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	139	95	83	106	82	68	68	62

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 Guam by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	16	13	15	17	41	26	18	26
Fraud	8	14	12	12	17	16	18	8
Larceny	9	4	10	11	9	15	9	3
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	7	11	10	6	4	6	3	6
Administration of Justice	7	1	3	10	6	8	1	1
Firearms	3	1	2	2	10	6	2	2
Immigration	3	4	5	4	1	2	4	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	1	3	0	1	4	0	0	2
Money Laundering	2	0	1	1	1	3	1	1
Tax Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	1
Forgery/Counterfeiting	0	0	0	1	3	1	2	0
Assault	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0
Bribery	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
Child Pornography	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0
Embezzlement	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1
Racketeering/Extortion	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Sexual Abuse	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Arson	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Prison Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All offenses	58	54	59	68	99	91	67	55

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 Guam by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	14	40%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	4	11%
Sex Abuse	4	11%
Administration of Justice	3	9%
Firearms	2	6%
Money Launder	2	6%
Burglary/Trespass	1	3%
Extortion/Racketeering	1	3%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	3%
Other	1	3%
Prison Offenses	1	3%
Stalking/Harassing	1	3%

All 35 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 Guam by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Asian+NHPI	30	1	86%
White+MENA	4	0	11%
Black	1	0	3%

All 35 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 1 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 Guam by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	26	74%
II	4	11%
III	1	3%
V	3	9%
VI	1	3%

All 35 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 Guam against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	15	43%
Above the range	1	3%
Below the range, government-sponsored	16	46%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	3	9%

All 35 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 Guam, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	70	40	30	57.1%	42.9%
FY2007	116	26	90	22.4%	77.6%
FY2008	92	21	71	22.8%	77.2%
FY2009	71	12	59	16.9%	83.1%
FY2010	71	17	54	23.9%	76.1%
FY2011	83	20	63	24.1%	75.9%
FY2012	108	26	82	24.1%	75.9%
FY2013	77	20	57	26.0%	74.0%
FY2014	75	9	66	12.0%	88.0%
FY2015	102	15	87	14.7%	85.3%
FY2016	40	7	33	17.5%	82.5%
FY2017	67	15	52	22.4%	77.6%
FY2018	43	6	37	14.0%	86.0%
FY2019	56	11	45	19.6%	80.4%
FY2020	35	10	25	28.6%	71.4%
FY2021	32	9	23	28.1%	71.9%
FY2022	27	4	23	14.8%	85.2%
FY2023	36	6	30	16.7%	83.3%
FY2024	44	12	32	27.3%	72.7%
FY2025	32	11	21	34.4%	65.6%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	70	40	30	57.1%	42.9%
FY2007	107	18	89	16.8%	83.2%
FY2008	83	12	71	14.5%	85.5%
FY2009	68	11	57	16.2%	83.8%
FY2010	68	14	54	20.6%	79.4%
FY2011	81	20	61	24.7%	75.3%
FY2012	107	26	81	24.3%	75.7%
FY2013	76	19	57	25.0%	75.0%
FY2014	75	9	66	12.0%	88.0%
FY2015	101	14	87	13.9%	86.1%
FY2016	39	6	33	15.4%	84.6%
FY2017	66	14	52	21.2%	78.8%
FY2018	42	6	36	14.3%	85.7%
FY2019	56	11	45	19.6%	80.4%
FY2020	35	10	25	28.6%	71.4%
FY2021	32	9	23	28.1%	71.9%
FY2022	25	3	22	12.0%	88.0%
FY2023	36	6	30	16.7%	83.3%
FY2024	44	12	32	27.3%	72.7%
FY2025	32	11	21	34.4%	65.6%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	25	3	22	12.0%	88.0%
FY2023	36	6	30	16.7%	83.3%
FY2024	37	6	31	16.2%	83.8%
FY2025	27	8	19	29.6%	70.4%

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