District of Maine

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 144
Noncitizens, FY2025: 15%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 190
Detained, FY2025: 48.9%

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	85%122	122
Prison and alternatives	2%3	3
Probation and alternatives	1%1	1
Probation only	13%18	18

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 37 months (mean 71) for the 125 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	29%42	42
Firearms	22%32	32
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	13%19	19
Immigration	12%17	17
Child Pornography	11%16	16
Robbery	5%7	7
Sex Abuse	4%6	6
Tax	1%2	2
Administration of Justice	1%1	1
Environmental	1%1	1
Stalking/Harassing	1%1	1

All 144 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	60	72	66	109	96	44	41	42
Firearms	23	27	16	28	24	23	24	32
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	29	17	12	30	14	13	21	19
Immigration	17	14	13	4	8	0	5	17
Child Pornography	11	7	3	10	13	10	7	16
Robbery	5	5	3	5	2	7	3	7
Sex Abuse	5	6	0	1	3	4	9	6
Stalking/Harassing	3	3	0	6	2	3	2	1
Environmental	13	1	0	0	0	1	3	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	3	3	0	3	4	1	0	0
Tax	1	1	1	0	0	1	6	2
Administration of Justice	1	0	0	0	3	2	2	1
Other	1	0	0	1	1	2	3	0
Commercialized Vice	1	2	0	0	2	0	2	0
Money Launder	1	0	0	0	2	2	1	0
Assault	1	0	0	2	1	1	0	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	0
Arson	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	0
Drug Possession	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Food and Drug	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Murder	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Bribery/Corruption	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Prison Offenses	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	178	162	118	199	180	116	132	144

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	85%123	123
Not a U.S. citizen	15%21	21
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

17 of the 144 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
White+MENA, 3 placed by CrimeDB	62%89	89
Black	19%28	28
Hispanic, 1 placed by CrimeDB	17%25	25
AIAN	1%1	1
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 144 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
I	47%67	67
II	15%21	21
III	15%22	22
IV	10%14	14
V	6%9	9
VI	8%11	11

All 144 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	39%56	56
Above the range	2%3	3
Below the range, government-sponsored	31%44	44
Below the range, not government-sponsored	28%41	41

All 144 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	190	93	97	48.9%	51.1%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	163	66	97	40.5%	59.5%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	161	64	97	39.8%	60.2%

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 Maine, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	218	185	33	0	18
FY2003	172	149	19	4	10
FY2004	243	214	26	3	9
FY2005	230	181	43	6	30
FY2006	205	167	34	4	22
FY2007	191	163	28	0	14
FY2008	210	149	59	2	42
FY2009	227	167	59	1	39
FY2010	169	142	27	0	20
FY2011	193	170	23	0	15
FY2012	191	154	36	1	19
FY2013	239	210	29	0	13
FY2014	199	174	25	0	15
FY2015	188	172	16	0	7
FY2016	202	187	15	0	3
FY2017	197	178	19	0	9
FY2018	178	151	27	0	17
FY2019	162	146	16	0	14
FY2020	118	94	24	0	13
FY2021	199	189	10	0	4
FY2022	180	168	12	0	8
FY2023	116	112	4	0	0
FY2024	132	120	12	0	5
FY2025	144	123	21	0	17

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 Maine, 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	218	173	9	3	30	2	1	84%	1
FY2003*	172	137	9	6	17	2	1	85%	0
FY2004	243	202	16	4	19	1	1	90%	0
FY2005*	230	200	9	8	12	0	1	91%	1
FY2006	205	180	11	4	10	0	0	93%	0
FY2007	191	168	9	3	11	0	0	93%	1
FY2008*	210	178	9	2	21	0	0	89%	1
FY2009	227	199	6	3	19	0	0	90%	0
FY2010*	169	153	2	1	12	1	0	92%	2
FY2011	193	166	5	9	13	0	0	89%	0
FY2012	191	166	4	3	17	1	0	89%	0
FY2013	239	220	6	1	11	1	0	95%	0
FY2014	199	168	13	1	17	0	0	91%	0
FY2015	188	159	10	4	15	0	0	90%	0
FY2016	202	168	10	1	23	0	0	88%	1
FY2017	197	165	9	0	21	2	0	88%	0
FY2018	178	147	5	2	23	1	0	85%	1
FY2019*	162	140	9	2	11	0	0	92%	0
FY2020	118	103	2	0	13	0	0	89%	0
FY2021	199	172	5	4	18	0	0	89%	0
FY2022	180	158	1	0	19	2	0	88%	0
FY2023	116	98	2	0	16	0	0	86%	0
FY2024*	132	106	0	0	26	0	0	80%	0
FY2025	144	122	3	1	18	0	0	87%	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 Maine, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	41	14	217	49	22	182
FY2003*	52	23	171	61	33	145
FY2004	52	24	242	57	28	218
FY2005*	51	24	229	55	27	208
FY2006	51	29	205	55	33	190
FY2007	50	30	191	54	33	176
FY2008*	42	18	210	47	24	186
FY2009	43	18	227	49	25	202
FY2010*	48	28	169	53	33	154
FY2011	45	26	193	50	33	171
FY2012	40	19	191	45	24	168
FY2013	54	30	239	59	36	217
FY2014	50	30	199	55	36	179
FY2015	54	30	188	63	37	163
FY2016	58	36	202	67	47	172
FY2017	50	30	197	59	36	166
FY2018	52	24	178	60	33	152
FY2019*	50	24	162	54	30	149
FY2020	34	23	118	39	30	105
FY2021	57	36	199	64	41	177
FY2022	49	27	180	55	36	159
FY2023	49	33	116	57	42	100
FY2024*	53	24	132	66	36	106
FY2025	61	33	144	71	37	125

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 Maine by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	74	53	103	86	72	59	65	80
Firearms	39	52	74	54	54	57	52	48
Immigration	18	10	9	30	22	14	42	39
Fraud	25	16	21	22	17	22	15	22
Pornography/Prostitution	9	5	6	6	16	10	9	8
Larceny	9	7	6	9	2	7	5	4
Embezzlement	7	6	3	4	1	4	1	9
Robbery	6	6	5	3	7	2	2	2
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	2	4	1	2	3	2	4	5
Racketeering/Extortion	6	2	1	3	2	0	2	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	9	3	2	1	0	0	0	0
Administration of Justice	2	0	3	2	1	4	0	2
Forgery/Counterfeiting	5	3	1	0	0	2	2	0
Tax Offenses	2	1	2	1	1	2	2	1
Assault	2	1	0	1	3	1	2	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	1	1	3	1	0	2	0	0
Money Laundering	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	2
Prison Offenses	0	1	0	1	1	2	0	1
Arson	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1
Sexual Abuse	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	218	172	243	230	205	191	210	227

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 Maine by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	80	71	58	117	82	78	98	82
Firearms	28	40	46	30	27	20	25	45
Fraud	12	25	26	20	14	23	24	22
Immigration	20	15	19	13	15	7	3	9
Child Pornography	4	9	4	18	15	16	14	12
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	5	5	6	5	5	5	6	5
Robbery	4	6	4	6	5	5	7	3
Larceny	3	6	9	5	7	5	0	3
Administration of Justice	0	3	4	6	8	3	3	3
Embezzlement	3	2	7	4	1	3	6	2
Racketeering/Extortion	1	1	0	2	10	6	3	2
Money Laundering	1	3	0	3	4	4	0	1
Assault	2	0	1	4	1	2	3	1
Forgery/Counterfeiting	0	0	5	3	2	2	0	1
Tax Offenses	2	0	0	0	1	2	1	2
Sexual Abuse	1	1	0	1	0	1	3	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	1	1	0	0	2	2	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0
Arson	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
Bribery	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Prison Offenses	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
All offenses	169	193	191	239	199	188	202	197

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 Maine by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	42	29%
Firearms	32	22%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	19	13%
Immigration	17	12%
Child Pornography	16	11%
Robbery	7	5%
Sex Abuse	6	4%
Tax	2	1%
Administration of Justice	1	1%
Environmental	1	1%
Stalking/Harassing	1	1%

All 144 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 Maine by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
White+MENA	89	3	62%
Black	28	0	19%
Hispanic	25	1	17%
AIAN	1	0	1%
Race unknown	1	0	1%

All 144 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 Maine by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	67	47%
II	21	15%
III	22	15%
IV	14	10%
V	9	6%
VI	11	8%

All 144 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 Maine against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	56	39%
Above the range	3	2%
Below the range, government-sponsored	44	31%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	41	28%

All 144 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 Maine, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	187	83	104	44.4%	55.6%
FY2007	211	113	98	53.6%	46.4%
FY2008	276	129	147	46.7%	53.3%
FY2009	183	77	106	42.1%	57.9%
FY2010	198	90	108	45.5%	54.5%
FY2011	221	77	144	34.8%	65.2%
FY2012	259	120	139	46.3%	53.7%
FY2013	211	115	96	54.5%	45.5%
FY2014	177	74	103	41.8%	58.2%
FY2015	234	128	106	54.7%	45.3%
FY2016	180	101	79	56.1%	43.9%
FY2017	195	90	105	46.2%	53.8%
FY2018	182	92	90	50.5%	49.5%
FY2019	249	100	149	40.2%	59.8%
FY2020	120	45	75	37.5%	62.5%
FY2021	154	57	97	37.0%	63.0%
FY2022	155	65	90	41.9%	58.1%
FY2023	137	56	81	40.9%	59.1%
FY2024	142	62	80	43.7%	56.3%
FY2025	190	93	97	48.9%	51.1%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	174	74	100	42.5%	57.5%
FY2007	195	97	98	49.7%	50.3%
FY2008	262	119	143	45.4%	54.6%
FY2009	166	61	105	36.7%	63.3%
FY2010	192	84	108	43.8%	56.3%
FY2011	220	76	144	34.5%	65.5%
FY2012	253	114	139	45.1%	54.9%
FY2013	204	108	96	52.9%	47.1%
FY2014	171	71	100	41.5%	58.5%
FY2015	230	125	105	54.3%	45.7%
FY2016	178	99	79	55.6%	44.4%
FY2017	187	82	105	43.9%	56.1%
FY2018	175	85	90	48.6%	51.4%
FY2019	233	85	148	36.5%	63.5%
FY2020	110	36	74	32.7%	67.3%
FY2021	152	55	97	36.2%	63.8%
FY2022	150	60	90	40.0%	60.0%
FY2023	131	50	81	38.2%	61.8%
FY2024	140	60	80	42.9%	57.1%
FY2025	163	66	97	40.5%	59.5%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	148	58	90	39.2%	60.8%
FY2023	126	45	81	35.7%	64.3%
FY2024	134	56	78	41.8%	58.2%
FY2025	161	64	97	39.8%	60.2%

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