District of Nebraska

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 433
Noncitizens, FY2025: 33%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 395
Detained, FY2025: 79.0%

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

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	95%413	413
Prison and alternatives	<1%2	2
Probation and alternatives	<1%1	1
Probation only	4%17	17

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 59 months (mean 88) for the 415 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	43%188	188
Immigration	22%95	95
Firearms	9%38	38
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	8%33	33
Child Pornography	6%24	24
Sex Abuse	3%11	11
Assault	1%6	6
Money Launder	1%6	6
Other	1%6	6
Prison Offenses	1%6	6
Administration of Justice	1%5	5
Environmental	1%3	3
Stalking/Harassing	1%3	3
Manslaughter	1%2	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1%2	2
Arson	<1%1	1
Food and Drug	<1%1	1
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	<1%1	1
Murder	<1%1	1
Robbery	<1%1	1

All 433 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	174	191	163	144	197	267	200	188
Immigration	105	144	103	42	44	47	38	95
Firearms	37	36	45	44	67	84	46	38
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	55	42	41	33	25	31	51	33
Child Pornography	21	19	19	36	27	39	35	24
Sex Abuse	12	10	22	18	27	24	19	11
Robbery	20	22	14	7	15	20	9	1
Assault	13	13	15	16	13	7	8	6
Administration of Justice	14	6	9	6	8	4	9	5
Stalking/Harassing	7	8	15	7	8	6	2	3
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	6	11	7	3	12	4	6	2
Money Launder	14	10	6	2	2	8	2	6
Environmental	0	4	8	5	3	5	2	3
Other	2	3	3	3	8	1	3	6
Prison Offenses	0	1	1	4	5	6	6	6
Tax	3	3	4	4	1	7	1	0
Murder	3	0	1	5	0	1	0	1
Drug Possession	3	2	3	0	0	0	0	0
Commercialized Vice	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	1
Kidnapping	0	0	3	1	1	0	0	0
Bribery/Corruption	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	0
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0
Individual Rights	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
Arson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Extortion/Racketeering	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Food and Drug	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
All offenses	494	527	482	380	471	567	440	433

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	67%289	289
Not a U.S. citizen	33%144	144
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

95 of the 433 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
White+MENA, 5 placed by CrimeDB	35%150	150
Hispanic, 5 placed by CrimeDB	33%143	143
Black, 5 placed by CrimeDB	19%80	80
AIAN, 2 placed by CrimeDB	4%19	19
Asian+NHPI	1%3	3
Race unknown	9%38	38

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 433 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 17 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	38%163	163
II	20%85	85
III	15%66	66
IV	10%41	41
V	7%32	32
VI	11%46	46

All 433 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	51%220	220
Above the range	6%26	26
Below the range, government-sponsored	19%84	84
Below the range, not government-sponsored	24%102	102
Not known or not comparable	<1%1	1

All 433 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	395	312	83	79.0%	21.0%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	298	217	81	72.8%	27.2%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	217	134	83	61.8%	38.2%

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 Nebraska, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	528	373	140	15	47
FY2003	708	517	178	13	80
FY2004	810	578	220	12	58
FY2005	787	581	201	5	66
FY2006	703	492	198	13	75
FY2007	703	479	213	11	83
FY2008	642	444	195	3	72
FY2009	651	448	199	4	80
FY2010	602	394	203	5	96
FY2011	563	314	248	1	143
FY2012	602	348	250	4	131
FY2013	612	338	272	2	154
FY2014	595	363	232	0	140
FY2015	590	347	241	2	142
FY2016	542	365	176	1	77
FY2017	551	376	174	1	95
FY2018	494	325	169	0	105
FY2019	527	316	211	0	144
FY2020	482	329	152	1	103
FY2021	380	285	95	0	42
FY2022	471	390	81	0	44
FY2023	567	464	103	0	47
FY2024	440	337	103	0	38
FY2025	433	289	144	0	95

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 Nebraska, 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	528	473	11	18	23	2	1	92%	3
FY2003*	708	654	12	7	28	7	0	94%	2
FY2004	810	744	20	20	22	1	3	95%	0
FY2005*	787	729	10	16	32	0	0	94%	1
FY2006	703	657	11	8	27	0	0	95%	1
FY2007	703	641	13	16	32	1	0	93%	2
FY2008*	642	597	9	14	21	1	0	94%	3
FY2009	651	606	8	14	21	2	0	94%	0
FY2010*	602	540	12	14	35	1	0	92%	1
FY2011	563	512	11	17	22	1	0	93%	1
FY2012	602	541	11	9	39	2	0	92%	1
FY2013	612	560	13	5	32	2	0	94%	0
FY2014	595	542	12	8	33	0	0	93%	0
FY2015	590	523	10	9	48	0	0	90%	0
FY2016	542	488	3	15	36	0	0	91%	1
FY2017	551	496	5	7	43	0	0	91%	0
FY2018	494	442	12	5	35	0	0	92%	1
FY2019*	527	479	7	7	33	1	0	92%	0
FY2020	482	432	12	11	27	0	0	92%	2
FY2021	380	344	9	3	24	0	0	93%	4
FY2022	471	435	9	2	25	0	0	94%	0
FY2023	567	530	3	7	27	0	0	94%	2
FY2024*	440	422	4	1	13	0	0	97%	0
FY2025	433	413	2	1	17	0	0	96%	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 Nebraska, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	77	60	527	85	63	474
FY2003*	89	70	708	96	72	661
FY2004	88	70	807	93	70	758
FY2005*	78	60	787	84	63	735
FY2006	70	57	703	74	60	667
FY2007	68	57	703	74	60	648
FY2008*	63	57	642	68	60	598
FY2009	66	57	651	71	60	605
FY2010*	64	51	602	71	60	542
FY2011	55	33	563	61	44	504
FY2012	46	24	602	53	36	524
FY2013	48	24	612	57	37	519
FY2014	46	24	595	54	36	507
FY2015	47	24	590	57	37	477
FY2016	54	33	542	64	48	458
FY2017	51	36	551	60	48	468
FY2018	56	30	494	61	37	454
FY2019*	59	30	527	64	37	486
FY2020	60	32	482	65	37	444
FY2021	80	51	380	86	60	353
FY2022	76	60	471	80	60	444
FY2023	90	73	567	95	78	533
FY2024*	90	70	440	93	75	426
FY2025	85	56	433	88	59	415

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 Nebraska by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	323	459	523	498	400	376	347	351
Firearms	30	62	91	113	110	109	100	87
Immigration	47	80	58	66	75	83	72	80
Fraud	43	30	53	33	47	32	32	36
Administration of Justice	15	9	15	7	17	12	12	6
Pornography/Prostitution	6	2	4	11	6	13	19	21
Robbery	21	15	15	8	6	8	4	5
Assault	7	8	7	9	9	5	12	15
Larceny	7	13	11	5	7	13	8	5
Forgery/Counterfeiting	8	4	3	4	5	12	4	4
Sexual Abuse	4	5	5	5	1	6	9	6
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	5	6	4	7	4	1	1	8
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	6	0	6	4	3	6	9
Embezzlement	4	2	7	4	3	3	6	3
Tax Offenses	2	2	2	3	1	5	2	4
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	0	4	3	4	2	1	2
Racketeering/Extortion	1	0	0	0	0	9	3	1
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	1	3	0	1	1	0	4
Money Laundering	1	1	0	1	2	3	0	0
Murder	0	0	3	1	0	1	1	0
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3
Manslaughter	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
Bribery	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	528	708	810	787	703	703	642	651

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 Nebraska by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	278	223	208	225	236	206	240	256
Immigration	96	143	131	154	140	142	77	95
Firearms	101	56	61	43	58	49	61	54
Fraud	30	52	96	81	59	73	54	26
Child Pornography	24	25	28	23	27	37	37	28
Administration of Justice	17	16	14	26	12	23	14	20
Assault	8	9	10	18	14	16	21	23
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	9	9	8	12	8	8	7	8
Larceny	10	3	5	6	9	4	4	8
Sexual Abuse	7	3	8	1	9	2	5	5
Robbery	6	4	5	3	4	7	5	3
Tax Offenses	2	2	10	7	6	4	2	3
Forgery/Counterfeiting	3	6	7	1	2	3	5	0
Racketeering/Extortion	0	0	3	1	0	5	5	6
Embezzlement	1	4	1	2	1	3	2	4
Money Laundering	1	1	3	2	4	1	1	3
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	4	1	1	4	1	2	1	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	3	1	2	1	1	2	0	2
Prison Offenses	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	2
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	1
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Manslaughter	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
Arson	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	602	563	602	612	595	590	542	551

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 Nebraska by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	188	43%
Immigration	95	22%
Firearms	38	9%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	33	8%
Child Pornography	24	6%
Sex Abuse	11	3%
Assault	6	1%
Money Launder	6	1%
Other	6	1%
Prison Offenses	6	1%
Administration of Justice	5	1%
Environmental	3	1%
Stalking/Harassing	3	1%
Manslaughter	2	1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	1%
Arson	1	<1%
Food and Drug	1	<1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1	<1%
Murder	1	<1%
Robbery	1	<1%

All 433 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 Nebraska by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
White+MENA	150	5	35%
Hispanic	143	5	33%
Black	80	5	19%
AIAN	19	2	4%
Asian+NHPI	3	0	1%
Race unknown	38	0	9%

All 433 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 17 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 Nebraska by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	163	38%
II	85	20%
III	66	15%
IV	41	10%
V	32	7%
VI	46	11%

All 433 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 Nebraska against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	220	51%
Above the range	26	6%
Below the range, government-sponsored	84	19%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	102	24%
Not known or not comparable	1	<1%

All 433 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 Nebraska, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	647	381	266	58.9%	41.1%
FY2007	736	453	283	61.5%	38.5%
FY2008	752	393	359	52.3%	47.7%
FY2009	626	363	263	58.0%	42.0%
FY2010	592	325	267	54.9%	45.1%
FY2011	626	375	251	59.9%	40.1%
FY2012	591	327	264	55.3%	44.7%
FY2013	666	391	275	58.7%	41.3%
FY2014	643	387	256	60.2%	39.8%
FY2015	558	337	221	60.4%	39.6%
FY2016	558	313	245	56.1%	43.9%
FY2017	573	344	229	60.0%	40.0%
FY2018	539	363	176	67.3%	32.7%
FY2019	538	361	177	67.1%	32.9%
FY2020	466	321	145	68.9%	31.1%
FY2021	532	321	211	60.3%	39.7%
FY2022	474	280	194	59.1%	40.9%
FY2023	455	282	173	62.0%	38.0%
FY2024	321	197	124	61.4%	38.6%
FY2025	395	312	83	79.0%	21.0%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	585	319	266	54.5%	45.5%
FY2007	692	410	282	59.2%	40.8%
FY2008	711	352	359	49.5%	50.5%
FY2009	561	298	263	53.1%	46.9%
FY2010	513	247	266	48.1%	51.9%
FY2011	514	263	251	51.2%	48.8%
FY2012	479	216	263	45.1%	54.9%
FY2013	528	254	274	48.1%	51.9%
FY2014	494	240	254	48.6%	51.4%
FY2015	444	224	220	50.5%	49.5%
FY2016	498	254	244	51.0%	49.0%
FY2017	468	239	229	51.1%	48.9%
FY2018	418	242	176	57.9%	42.1%
FY2019	426	249	177	58.5%	41.5%
FY2020	379	234	145	61.7%	38.3%
FY2021	497	286	211	57.5%	42.5%
FY2022	431	237	194	55.0%	45.0%
FY2023	414	241	173	58.2%	41.8%
FY2024	283	159	124	56.2%	43.8%
FY2025	298	217	81	72.8%	27.2%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	396	205	191	51.8%	48.2%
FY2023	376	205	171	54.5%	45.5%
FY2024	253	131	122	51.8%	48.2%
FY2025	217	134	83	61.8%	38.2%

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