District of Kansas

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 410
Noncitizens, FY2025: 24%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 376
Detained, FY2025: 64.6%

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	83%342	342
Prison and alternatives	1%6	6
Probation and alternatives	<1%2	2
Probation only	9%38	38
Fine only	5%22	22

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 52 months (mean 82) for the 348 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	36%149	149
Firearms	15%62	62
Immigration	12%48	48
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	7%29	29
Child Pornography	5%19	19
Sex Abuse	4%18	18
Prison Offenses	4%16	16
Other	3%12	12
Assault	2%9	9
Individual Rights	2%8	8
Robbery	2%7	7
Administration of Justice	2%6	6
National Defense	2%6	6
Stalking/Harassing	2%6	6
Drug Possession	1%4	4
Money Launder	1%4	4
Burglary/Trespass	1%2	2
Tax	1%2	2
Environmental	<1%1	1
Murder	<1%1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%1	1

All 410 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	150	139	106	142	161	109	108	149
Firearms	112	97	65	111	85	65	62	62
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	65	64	38	37	18	31	43	29
Immigration	38	38	22	12	12	17	13	48
Prison Offenses	15	9	10	17	19	15	35	16
Child Pornography	12	17	12	17	13	15	15	19
Robbery	14	12	14	19	20	12	10	7
Sex Abuse	9	10	0	6	3	15	13	18
Other	4	16	5	9	3	6	5	12
Administration of Justice	14	14	6	7	8	3	1	6
Assault	7	6	5	5	3	5	9	9
Money Launder	9	3	3	10	4	7	6	4
Drug Possession	7	7	6	13	5	1	1	4
Tax	7	8	1	1	5	3	5	2
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	5	5	9	3	1	6	2	0
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	4	3	3	0	5	3	1
Environmental	2	4	1	2	5	1	2	1
Stalking/Harassing	0	4	2	1	0	3	2	6
National Defense	1	1	0	1	1	6	0	6
Bribery/Corruption	2	1	0	0	4	4	1	0
Individual Rights	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	8
Commercialized Vice	5	1	1	1	0	0	1	0
Murder	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	1
Extortion/Racketeering	0	2	1	1	0	3	0	0
Kidnapping	1	0	0	0	0	6	0	0
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2
Food and Drug	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
Arson	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
All offenses	486	465	311	420	371	341	340	410

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	74%302	302
Not a U.S. citizen	24%97	97
Citizenship not known	3%11	11

48 of the 410 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Hispanic, 1 placed by CrimeDB	36%149	149
White+MENA, 1 placed by CrimeDB	30%123	123
Black, 3 placed by CrimeDB	27%111	111
Asian+NHPI	1%3	3
AIAN	<1%1	1
Race unknown	6%23	23

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 410 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 5 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	42%171	171
II	16%67	67
III	15%60	60
IV	7%28	28
V	8%33	33
VI	8%31	31
Category not known	5%20	20

All 410 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	40%165	165
Above the range	5%21	21
Below the range, government-sponsored	33%134	134
Below the range, not government-sponsored	17%71	71
Not known or not comparable	5%19	19

All 410 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	376	243	133	64.6%	35.4%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	326	195	131	59.8%	40.2%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	285	159	126	55.8%	44.2%

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 Kansas, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	515	410	97	8	49
FY2003	566	416	147	3	63
FY2004	702	495	193	14	87
FY2005	673	471	195	7	102
FY2006	702	451	242	9	127
FY2007	649	440	199	10	120
FY2008	679	438	213	28	127
FY2009	741	554	160	27	82
FY2010	728	499	211	18	90
FY2011	699	477	211	11	110
FY2012	722	490	204	28	114
FY2013	686	488	178	20	76
FY2014	675	514	157	4	59
FY2015	595	474	104	17	53
FY2016	491	363	116	12	36
FY2017	582	459	121	2	56
FY2018	486	376	109	1	38
FY2019	465	367	91	7	38
FY2020	311	246	63	2	22
FY2021	420	369	51	0	12
FY2022	371	334	37	0	12
FY2023	341	287	53	1	17
FY2024	340	305	33	2	13
FY2025	410	302	97	11	48

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 Kansas, 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	515	400	29	26	55	3	2	84%	0
FY2003*	566	463	15	24	59	3	2	85%	2
FY2004	702	582	10	29	73	7	1	84%	2
FY2005*	673	579	11	22	60	1	0	88%	3
FY2006	702	609	15	23	53	1	1	89%	6
FY2007	649	571	13	27	36	2	0	90%	1
FY2008*	679	583	16	12	49	19	0	88%	1
FY2009	741	625	10	27	55	23	1	86%	2
FY2010*	728	617	9	23	64	15	0	86%	4
FY2011	699	585	14	22	71	7	0	86%	4
FY2012	722	572	18	23	87	21	1	82%	1
FY2013	686	574	14	20	57	21	0	86%	1
FY2014	675	577	18	9	58	13	0	88%	4
FY2015	595	463	26	6	85	15	0	82%	1
FY2016	491	388	14	7	65	17	0	82%	2
FY2017	582	474	16	8	73	11	0	84%	2
FY2018	486	417	7	5	49	8	0	87%	1
FY2019*	465	379	7	10	55	14	0	83%	1
FY2020	311	270	6	2	28	5	0	89%	0
FY2021	420	334	11	4	55	16	0	82%	0
FY2022	371	312	3	6	44	6	0	85%	0
FY2023	341	289	6	5	29	12	0	87%	1
FY2024*	340	286	5	5	41	3	0	86%	0
FY2025	410	342	6	2	38	22	0	85%	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 Kansas, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	47	37	514	56	46	427
FY2003*	54	37	564	63	47	478
FY2004	56	37	701	67	48	588
FY2005*	61	46	672	70	51	584
FY2006	60	37	701	67	46	622
FY2007	58	38	649	64	46	580
FY2008*	58	37	679	66	46	593
FY2009	62	46	741	73	57	629
FY2010*	67	46	728	79	57	612
FY2011	59	33	699	71	46	582
FY2012	49	24	722	62	39	568
FY2013	54	36	686	64	46	575
FY2014	55	36	675	65	48	569
FY2015	44	24	595	57	39	458
FY2016	54	30	491	69	46	378
FY2017	50	30	582	66	47	439
FY2018	46	24	486	52	34	424
FY2019*	49	30	465	59	41	386
FY2020	56	36	311	63	40	276
FY2021	53	36	420	65	54	345
FY2022	55	36	371	65	46	315
FY2023	64	42	341	74	51	295
FY2024*	62	36	340	72	47	291
FY2025	70	37	410	82	52	348

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 Kansas by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	174	211	263	240	239	226	226	290
Firearms	69	75	116	119	113	135	136	136
Immigration	49	63	87	102	127	120	127	82
Fraud	50	43	58	47	60	46	36	60
Administration of Justice	20	11	21	24	29	15	13	25
Pornography/Prostitution	9	19	19	22	22	9	18	22
Larceny	21	19	17	20	18	11	15	12
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	16	14	15	6	13	11	23	23
Racketeering/Extortion	12	17	17	18	13	9	16	14
Forgery/Counterfeiting	24	21	20	14	7	7	9	12
Robbery	30	9	12	5	14	18	11	7
Drugs - Communication Facilities	9	12	16	13	3	7	5	19
Drugs - Simple Possession	4	13	12	8	4	4	5	9
Embezzlement	4	9	3	10	8	8	5	5
Prison Offenses	2	9	7	3	4	8	8	6
Assault	5	5	7	5	5	5	1	3
Tax Offenses	10	5	3	4	4	1	4	4
Money Laundering	3	4	1	2	2	4	5	2
Sexual Abuse	0	1	1	3	2	2	4	3
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	1	3	2	4	2	1	1
Civil Rights Offenses	0	1	0	1	3	0	1	3
Food and Drug Offenses	0	2	0	2	1	0	2	0
Arson	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	0
Auto Theft	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	1
Bribery	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1
Murder	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0
Manslaughter	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
All offenses	515	566	702	673	702	649	679	741

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 Kansas by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	248	222	182	188	225	176	135	133
Firearms	140	122	151	142	145	100	89	144
Immigration	90	110	114	76	59	53	36	56
Fraud	65	59	55	63	55	61	48	49
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	28	22	33	30	19	36	20	18
Administration of Justice	21	22	27	27	30	25	23	19
Racketeering/Extortion	21	11	13	19	27	16	23	26
Drugs - Communication Facilities	16	13	13	26	18	16	18	27
Child Pornography	13	19	21	17	20	17	20	15
Larceny	20	9	17	13	24	23	11	19
Robbery	11	6	27	17	15	13	16	11
Forgery/Counterfeiting	12	19	14	14	8	10	6	6
Drugs - Simple Possession	9	8	12	5	3	14	5	6
Money Laundering	7	18	2	6	5	6	6	4
Embezzlement	5	10	3	10	5	6	7	5
Assault	6	3	6	8	4	5	10	8
Prison Offenses	4	7	2	3	6	6	6	6
Tax Offenses	5	2	3	8	3	5	8	5
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	6	19	1	3	2	0	5
Sexual Abuse	1	3	2	4	0	3	2	9
Food and Drug Offenses	0	5	2	3	0	1	0	2
Arson	2	1	1	4	0	0	0	1
Bribery	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	2
Civil Rights Offenses	2	0	3	1	0	0	0	0
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
Manslaughter	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
All offenses	728	699	722	686	675	595	491	582

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 Kansas by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	149	36%
Firearms	62	15%
Immigration	48	12%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	29	7%
Child Pornography	19	5%
Sex Abuse	18	4%
Prison Offenses	16	4%
Other	12	3%
Assault	9	2%
Individual Rights	8	2%
Robbery	7	2%
Administration of Justice	6	2%
National Defense	6	2%
Stalking/Harassing	6	2%
Drug Possession	4	1%
Money Launder	4	1%
Burglary/Trespass	2	1%
Tax	2	1%
Environmental	1	<1%
Murder	1	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	<1%

All 410 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 Kansas by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Hispanic	149	1	36%
White+MENA	123	1	30%
Black	111	3	27%
Asian+NHPI	3	0	1%
AIAN	1	0	<1%
Race unknown	23	0	6%

All 410 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 5 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 Kansas by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	171	42%
II	67	16%
III	60	15%
IV	28	7%
V	33	8%
VI	31	8%
Category not known	20	5%

All 410 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 Kansas against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	165	40%
Above the range	21	5%
Below the range, government-sponsored	134	33%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	71	17%
Not known or not comparable	19	5%

All 410 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 Kansas, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	806	486	320	60.3%	39.7%
FY2007	790	476	314	60.3%	39.7%
FY2008	807	464	343	57.5%	42.5%
FY2009	626	372	254	59.4%	40.6%
FY2010	641	412	229	64.3%	35.7%
FY2011	759	434	325	57.2%	42.8%
FY2012	937	545	392	58.2%	41.8%
FY2013	694	400	294	57.6%	42.4%
FY2014	673	402	271	59.7%	40.3%
FY2015	563	326	237	57.9%	42.1%
FY2016	555	286	269	51.5%	48.5%
FY2017	466	275	191	59.0%	41.0%
FY2018	476	272	204	57.1%	42.9%
FY2019	462	277	185	60.0%	40.0%
FY2020	358	209	149	58.4%	41.6%
FY2021	339	166	173	49.0%	51.0%
FY2022	310	168	142	54.2%	45.8%
FY2023	388	215	173	55.4%	44.6%
FY2024	343	207	136	60.3%	39.7%
FY2025	376	243	133	64.6%	35.4%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	733	413	320	56.3%	43.7%
FY2007	725	412	313	56.8%	43.2%
FY2008	729	387	342	53.1%	46.9%
FY2009	583	329	254	56.4%	43.6%
FY2010	558	329	229	59.0%	41.0%
FY2011	686	363	323	52.9%	47.1%
FY2012	823	432	391	52.5%	47.5%
FY2013	654	360	294	55.0%	45.0%
FY2014	634	364	270	57.4%	42.6%
FY2015	529	295	234	55.8%	44.2%
FY2016	526	257	269	48.9%	51.1%
FY2017	435	244	191	56.1%	43.9%
FY2018	437	234	203	53.5%	46.5%
FY2019	428	245	183	57.2%	42.8%
FY2020	339	191	148	56.3%	43.7%
FY2021	327	155	172	47.4%	52.6%
FY2022	300	160	140	53.3%	46.7%
FY2023	370	197	173	53.2%	46.8%
FY2024	321	185	136	57.6%	42.4%
FY2025	326	195	131	59.8%	40.2%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	278	141	137	50.7%	49.3%
FY2023	343	174	169	50.7%	49.3%
FY2024	285	153	132	53.7%	46.3%
FY2025	285	159	126	55.8%	44.2%

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