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District of Hawaii

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

People sentenced, FY2025
142
Noncitizens, FY2025
12%
Pretrial cases, FY2025
151
Detained, FY2025
49.0%

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

people sentenced each year, from U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB
  • 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 only90%128
Prison and alternatives4%6
Probation and alternatives3%4
Probation only3%4

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 63 months (mean 88) for the 134 sentenced to prison; life and anything over 470 months count as 470, as the Commission counts them.

Percent sentenced to prison, FY2002 to FY2025

percent sentenced to prison each year, from U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB

Median prison term in months, FY2002 to FY2025

months, median each year, from U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB
  • 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 Trafficking53%75
Immigration6%8
Firearms5%7
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement5%7
Murder4%6
Sex Abuse4%5
Child Pornography3%4
Commercialized Vice3%4
Assault2%3
Money Launder2%3
National Defense2%3
Robbery2%3
Tax2%3
Administration of Justice1%2
Extortion/Racketeering1%2
Individual Rights1%2
Bribery/Corruption1%1
Kidnapping1%1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses1%1
Other1%1
Stalking/Harassing1%1

All 142 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

OffenseFY2018FY2019*FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024*FY2025
Drug Trafficking8390527994597475
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement1519143261957
Firearms88121912777
Robbery83857713
Immigration87831328
Sex Abuse31622245
Administration of Justice51361112
Child Pornography31333034
Bribery/Corruption21024801
Commercialized Vice00092014
Environmental211300000
Tax43310003
Assault02023303
Money Launder11310213
Stalking/Harassing00121231
Forgery/Counter/Copyright60110010
Murder00200016
Individual Rights01100402
Other31201001
National Defense01001113
Drug Possession11010010
Extortion/Racketeering00000022
Prison Offenses02200000
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses00001101
Kidnapping00001001
Manslaughter10000000
All offenses153154124168140119108142

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. citizen88%125
Not a U.S. citizen12%17
Citizenship not known0%0

8 of the 142 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Asian+NHPINative Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, 2 placed by CrimeDB44%63
White+MENAMiddle Eastern or North African, 1 placed by CrimeDB22%31
Hispanic, 1 placed by CrimeDB18%25
Black6%9
AIANAmerican Indian or Alaska Native1%2
Race unknown9%12
  • 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 142 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 4 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
I56%80
II18%25
III12%17
IV6%8
V3%4
VI6%8

All 142 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 range27%38
Above the range6%9
Below the range, government-sponsored45%64
Below the range, not government-sponsored22%31

All 142 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

percent detained each year, from U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B

Pretrial release and detention, FY2025

Which casesTableCases openedDetainedReleasedDetained (%)Released (%)
All casesH-14151747749.0%51.0%
Excluding immigration casesH-14A143667746.2%53.8%
Excluding illegal alien casesH-14B140667447.1%52.9%

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 Hawaii, by fiscal year

Fiscal yearPeople sentencedU.S. citizensNoncitizensCitizenship not knownImmigration offenses
FY2002375295641618
FY200333426640283
FY200438631944235
FY200540334739175
FY2006452370552717
FY2007359291412713
FY2008279232371016
FY200930322768834
FY20101661362375
FY201120615938914
FY2012242190421021
FY2013252212281215
FY201429125533310
FY20152392073119
FY20161411221907
FY2017128121703
FY20181531322108
FY201915412519107
FY20201241081608
FY20211681561203
FY2022140132711
FY2023119112703
FY202410899902
FY20251421251708

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 Hawaii, by fiscal year

Fiscal yearPeople sentencedPrison onlyPrison and alternativesProbation and alternativesProbation onlyFine onlyType not knownSentenced to prisonLife sentences
FY20023752761928502079%2
FY2003*3342651418343084%0
FY20043863091015501183%0
FY2005*4033312121291087%0
FY20064523792012355188%0
FY20073592861314460083%2
FY2008*279236916180088%0
FY200930327157200091%2
FY2010*16614444140089%2
FY2011206165126221086%0
FY201224219788290085%1
FY20132521891310400080%0
FY20142912141621400079%0
FY2015239203134190090%2
FY2016141111107112086%1
FY201712811143100090%0
FY201815312914730093%0
FY2019*1541378180094%0
FY202012410310290091%0
FY202116814386110090%0
FY202214012280100093%0
FY20231191029080093%0
FY2024*1081032111097%0
FY20251421286440094%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 Hawaii, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal yearSentence, meanSentence, medianPeople sentencedPrison term, meanPrison term, medianSentenced to prison
FY200239213754830295
FY2003*50303346041278
FY200447273855737319
FY2005*50364035839348
FY200663484517257396
FY200760413597257299
FY2008*53372796046245
FY200962363036942273
FY2010*62411666948148
FY201153372066346174
FY201254332426446202
FY201343212525435199
FY201449242916240227
FY201570482397757215
FY201662391417251119
FY201762411286848115
FY201866501537054143
FY2019*58401546141145
FY202063421246948113
FY202155361686041151
FY202269571407460130
FY202359481196357111
FY2024*95751089880105
FY202583571428863134

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 Hawaii by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

OffenseFY2002FY2003*FY2004FY2005*FY2006FY2007FY2008*FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing189161170198243184125150
Firearms733556070342615
Fraud3530373840243036
Immigration1835517131634
Larceny101911141118810
Robbery910910121278
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses6813101411114
Money Laundering22141472512
Racketeering/Extortion24810321310
Drugs - Communication Facilities143975442
Embezzlement976341142
Pornography/Prostitution553641247
Assault69585173
Drugs - Simple Possession675331032
Gambling/Lottery601010069
Forgery/Counterfeiting125612140
Tax Offenses50374521
Administration of Justice22344242
Burglary/Breaking and Entering44621010
Prison Offenses02204502
Sexual Abuse31120102
Bribery02022100
Civil Rights Offenses00210021
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses01022001
Auto Theft20110100
Arson02000100
Manslaughter11000000
National Defense Offenses00100010
Food and Drug Offenses00000100
Murder10000000
Offense type not known11110000
All offenses375334386403452359279303

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 Hawaii by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

OffenseFY2010*FY2011FY2012FY2013FY2014FY2015FY2016FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing799899861221377064
Fraud2422513936121622
Firearms1313823101236
Immigration514211510973
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses96913111264
Larceny761285211
Child Pornography39635654
Forgery/Counterfeiting21778508
Racketeering/Extortion212681324
Gambling/Lottery0011117620
Robbery77453413
Money Laundering144515400
Tax Offenses132216312
Administration of Justice10155451
Embezzlement16245022
Assault22171140
Sexual Abuse46220010
Drugs - Communication Facilities22205210
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses01313050
Prison Offenses01221041
Bribery00200213
Auto Theft00001420
Drugs - Simple Possession12012000
National Defense Offenses22101000
Burglary/Breaking and Entering00050000
Food and Drug Offenses00010010
Murder00001100
Arson00010000
Civil Rights Offenses00000010
All offenses166206242252291239141128

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 Hawaii by offense, FY2025

OffensePeople sentencedShare
Drug Trafficking7553%
Immigration86%
Firearms75%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement75%
Murder64%
Sex Abuse54%
Child Pornography43%
Commercialized Vice43%
Assault32%
Money Launder32%
National Defense32%
Robbery32%
Tax32%
Administration of Justice21%
Extortion/Racketeering21%
Individual Rights21%
Bribery/Corruption11%
Kidnapping11%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses11%
Other11%
Stalking/Harassing11%

All 142 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 Hawaii by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic originPeople sentencedOf which placed by CrimeDBShare
Asian+NHPI63244%
White+MENA31122%
Hispanic25118%
Black906%
AIAN201%
Race unknown1209%

All 142 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 4 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 Hawaii by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history categoryPeople sentencedShare
I8056%
II2518%
III1712%
IV86%
V43%
VI86%

All 142 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 Hawaii against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline rangePeople sentencedShare
Within the range3827%
Above the range96%
Below the range, government-sponsored6445%
Below the range, not government-sponsored3122%

All 142 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 Hawaii, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal yearCases openedDetainedReleasedDetained (%)Released (%)
FY200640817423442.6%57.4%
FY200734712422335.7%64.3%
FY200835713722038.4%61.6%
FY200927510517038.2%61.8%
FY20102528217032.5%67.5%
FY201131010120932.6%67.4%
FY201229111317838.8%61.2%
FY201335712822935.9%64.1%
FY20142757120425.8%74.2%
FY2015153589537.9%62.1%
FY20161665411232.5%67.5%
FY20171796711237.4%62.6%
FY20182117913237.4%62.6%
FY20192038212140.4%59.6%
FY202021310011346.9%53.1%
FY2021151559636.4%63.6%
FY2022124556944.4%55.6%
FY2023115536246.1%53.9%
FY202494573760.6%39.4%
FY2025151747749.0%51.0%

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

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

Fiscal yearCases openedDetainedReleasedDetained (%)Released (%)
FY200640216823441.8%58.2%
FY200734312022335.0%65.0%
FY200835313421938.0%62.0%
FY20092649916537.5%62.5%
FY20102528217032.5%67.5%
FY20113019320830.9%69.1%
FY201228210517737.2%62.8%
FY201335412522935.3%64.7%
FY20142696520424.2%75.8%
FY2015152579537.5%62.5%
FY20161635410933.1%66.9%
FY20171766611037.5%62.5%
FY20182107813237.1%62.9%
FY20191957412137.9%62.1%
FY20202099611345.9%54.1%
FY2021149539635.6%64.4%
FY2022122536943.4%56.6%
FY2023115536246.1%53.9%
FY202494573760.6%39.4%
FY2025143667746.2%53.8%

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

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

Fiscal yearCases openedDetainedReleasedDetained (%)Released (%)
FY2022121526943.0%57.0%
FY2023113516245.1%54.9%
FY202492553759.8%40.2%
FY2025140667447.1%52.9%

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