District of Nevada

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 202
Noncitizens, FY2025: 33%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 227
Detained, FY2025: 51.5%

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	80%161	161
Prison and alternatives	4%8	8
Probation and alternatives	3%6	6
Probation only	13%27	27

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 30 months (mean 53) for the 169 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
Immigration	25%50	50
Firearms	20%41	41
Drug Trafficking	17%35	35
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	10%20	20
Robbery	6%13	13
Sex Abuse	4%8	8
Assault	4%7	7
Money Launder	3%6	6
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	2%4	4
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2%4	4
Child Pornography	2%3	3
Stalking/Harassing	2%3	3
Administration of Justice	1%2	2
Prison Offenses	1%2	2
Tax	1%2	2
Environmental	1%1	1
Individual Rights	1%1	1

All 202 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Firearms	115	114	71	70	115	94	50	41
Drug Trafficking	91	98	77	79	95	112	67	35
Immigration	87	74	69	54	31	45	42	50
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	49	77	16	40	56	36	38	20
Robbery	24	35	9	16	23	18	12	13
Child Pornography	26	27	11	9	17	13	15	3
Money Launder	7	12	4	3	9	8	9	6
Assault	7	9	3	5	3	9	7	7
Sex Abuse	6	8	3	5	10	4	4	8
Tax	8	8	7	5	5	7	6	2
Administration of Justice	9	6	8	3	2	3	1	2
Prison Offenses	7	4	1	1	2	2	2	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	3	2	2	2	3	1	1	4
Stalking/Harassing	1	0	3	0	1	2	3	3
Drug Possession	4	2	4	0	1	1	0	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	2	1	1	0	0	1	3	4
Other	2	0	1	2	2	1	2	0
Arson	0	1	1	0	5	1	0	0
Environmental	3	0	0	0	2	0	2	1
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0
Extortion/Racketeering	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
Kidnapping	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	0
Murder	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	0
Bribery/Corruption	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0
Individual Rights	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Commercialized Vice	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
National Defense	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
All offenses	458	482	293	299	387	362	271	202

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%135	135
Not a U.S. citizen	33%66	66
Citizenship not known	<1%1	1

50 of the 202 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Hispanic, 2 placed by CrimeDB	46%92	92
Black, 3 placed by CrimeDB	26%52	52
White+MENA, 1 placed by CrimeDB	25%51	51
AIAN	3%5	5
Asian+NHPI	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 202 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 6 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	33%67	67
II	18%36	36
III	18%36	36
IV	11%22	22
V	7%14	14
VI	12%25	25
Category not known	1%2	2

All 202 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	18%36	36
Above the range	2%3	3
Below the range, government-sponsored	57%116	116
Below the range, not government-sponsored	23%46	46
Not known or not comparable	1%1	1

All 202 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	227	117	110	51.5%	48.5%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	176	66	110	37.5%	62.5%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	172	64	108	37.2%	62.8%

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 Nevada, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	606	345	243	18	182
FY2003	712	412	269	31	188
FY2004	628	379	221	28	151
FY2005	570	374	181	15	99
FY2006	392	238	147	7	72
FY2007	655	437	196	22	99
FY2008	433	261	160	12	91
FY2009	406	222	182	2	108
FY2010	620	325	293	2	206
FY2011	651	374	274	3	163
FY2012	621	413	207	1	107
FY2013	633	413	220	0	137
FY2014	510	376	133	1	85
FY2015	552	394	155	3	82
FY2016	401	278	122	1	68
FY2017	485	325	159	1	103
FY2018	458	344	112	2	87
FY2019	482	342	139	1	74
FY2020	293	187	106	0	69
FY2021	299	200	99	0	54
FY2022	387	306	79	2	31
FY2023	362	269	92	1	45
FY2024	271	200	70	1	42
FY2025	202	135	66	1	50

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 Nevada, 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	606	485	29	44	44	2	2	85%	1
FY2003*	712	609	14	34	54	1	0	88%	1
FY2004	628	533	11	35	43	2	4	87%	0
FY2005*	570	499	16	26	28	1	0	90%	1
FY2006	392	326	7	22	35	2	0	85%	0
FY2007	655	519	21	27	86	1	1	83%	1
FY2008*	433	358	10	24	40	1	0	85%	3
FY2009	406	341	13	21	31	0	0	87%	3
FY2010*	620	524	15	22	58	1	0	87%	0
FY2011	651	560	17	19	53	2	0	89%	0
FY2012	621	527	32	23	39	0	0	90%	0
FY2013	633	556	17	24	35	1	0	91%	0
FY2014	510	427	22	21	38	2	0	88%	1
FY2015	552	473	35	18	23	3	0	92%	2
FY2016	401	355	15	13	16	2	0	92%	0
FY2017	485	431	15	14	25	0	0	92%	2
FY2018	458	383	35	13	25	2	0	91%	1
FY2019*	482	381	35	22	44	0	0	86%	1
FY2020	293	239	23	13	18	0	0	89%	0
FY2021	299	242	16	16	23	2	0	86%	0
FY2022	387	311	30	13	32	1	0	88%	1
FY2023	362	311	18	10	23	0	0	91%	1
FY2024*	271	216	19	14	22	0	0	87%	1
FY2025	202	161	8	6	27	0	0	84%	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 Nevada, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	39	24	604	47	30	496
FY2003*	40	27	711	48	36	580
FY2004	44	33	624	52	41	528
FY2005*	50	37	570	55	41	511
FY2006	46	33	392	55	41	327
FY2007	45	30	654	56	46	523
FY2008*	49	30	433	59	40	358
FY2009	47	27	406	55	36	346
FY2010*	42	24	620	49	33	526
FY2011	41	30	651	46	36	569
FY2012	51	36	621	58	41	536
FY2013	49	33	633	55	41	563
FY2014	48	30	510	57	38	428
FY2015	49	30	552	55	37	480
FY2016	53	37	401	59	41	355
FY2017	45	27	485	52	33	416
FY2018	44	30	458	48	33	418
FY2019*	50	30	482	57	36	416
FY2020	40	23	293	43	24	262
FY2021	39	24	299	45	30	258
FY2022	48	30	387	53	37	341
FY2023	48	30	362	52	36	329
FY2024*	45	28	271	51	36	235
FY2025	44	18	202	53	30	169

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 Nevada by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Immigration	182	188	151	99	72	99	91	108
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	78	99	97	119	89	153	88	70
Firearms	65	142	118	122	63	120	52	58
Fraud	68	93	87	60	53	87	86	44
Robbery	53	34	35	38	20	47	26	14
Larceny	20	18	21	17	17	25	20	8
Forgery/Counterfeiting	24	25	19	10	14	16	4	10
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	7	14	11	12	5	13	9	23
Racketeering/Extortion	9	15	7	11	11	15	6	12
Administration of Justice	11	13	19	11	6	8	4	8
Tax Offenses	17	8	5	7	9	14	6	11
Pornography/Prostitution	6	7	8	9	4	17	10	15
Money Laundering	18	6	4	8	7	12	7	4
Drugs - Communication Facilities	4	13	7	12	8	6	4	1
Embezzlement	10	14	12	5	4	2	6	2
Assault	4	5	10	9	3	7	2	6
Sexual Abuse	2	8	5	6	1	5	4	6
Prison Offenses	4	5	5	8	2	3	3	1
Gambling/Lottery	16	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
Drugs - Simple Possession	1	1	0	1	1	4	2	1
Arson	2	1	3	0	0	1	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	1	1	2	0	0	1	2	0
Auto Theft	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	1
Bribery	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	0
Murder	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Antitrust Violations	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
All offenses	606	712	628	570	392	655	433	406

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 Nevada by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Immigration	206	163	107	137	85	82	68	103
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	107	134	139	120	99	118	101	96
Firearms	67	90	94	108	87	98	95	124
Fraud	81	80	107	79	97	97	33	34
Child Pornography	26	17	43	36	27	25	28	25
Robbery	25	31	14	21	14	13	18	12
Administration of Justice	15	13	12	24	18	13	4	11
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	18	20	9	20	12	20	4	7
Larceny	17	21	18	15	9	8	5	5
Money Laundering	6	13	19	23	1	12	2	9
Racketeering/Extortion	5	10	12	8	10	22	6	7
Sexual Abuse	3	7	8	7	14	10	8	11
Assault	8	11	4	7	6	9	7	9
Tax Offenses	16	3	11	7	7	6	3	4
Forgery/Counterfeiting	3	9	6	5	6	0	0	4
Drugs - Communication Facilities	2	11	8	4	2	1	1	2
Prison Offenses	2	1	1	1	2	3	5	11
Embezzlement	5	2	2	3	2	2	2	3
Drugs - Simple Possession	1	3	3	5	1	1	3	2
Bribery	5	2	1	2	1	0	1	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	8	1	0	1	0	2	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	0	2	7	2	1
Food and Drug Offenses	0	2	0	1	1	3	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2
Arson	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
All offenses	620	651	621	633	510	552	401	485

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 Nevada by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Immigration	50	25%
Firearms	41	20%
Drug Trafficking	35	17%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	20	10%
Robbery	13	6%
Sex Abuse	8	4%
Assault	7	4%
Money Launder	6	3%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	4	2%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	4	2%
Child Pornography	3	2%
Stalking/Harassing	3	2%
Administration of Justice	2	1%
Prison Offenses	2	1%
Tax	2	1%
Environmental	1	1%
Individual Rights	1	1%

All 202 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 Nevada by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Hispanic	92	2	46%
Black	52	3	26%
White+MENA	51	1	25%
AIAN	5	0	3%
Asian+NHPI	1	0	1%
Race unknown	1	0	1%

All 202 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 6 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 Nevada by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	67	33%
II	36	18%
III	36	18%
IV	22	11%
V	14	7%
VI	25	12%
Category not known	2	1%

All 202 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 Nevada against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	36	18%
Above the range	3	2%
Below the range, government-sponsored	116	57%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	46	23%
Not known or not comparable	1	1%

All 202 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 Nevada, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	681	399	282	58.6%	41.4%
FY2007	499	276	223	55.3%	44.7%
FY2008	536	288	248	53.7%	46.3%
FY2009	731	406	325	55.5%	44.5%
FY2010	820	462	358	56.3%	43.7%
FY2011	710	397	313	55.9%	44.1%
FY2012	655	335	320	51.1%	48.9%
FY2013	665	391	274	58.8%	41.2%
FY2014	539	326	213	60.5%	39.5%
FY2015	483	264	219	54.7%	45.3%
FY2016	481	310	171	64.4%	35.6%
FY2017	532	354	178	66.5%	33.5%
FY2018	526	351	175	66.7%	33.3%
FY2019	461	277	184	60.1%	39.9%
FY2020	372	199	173	53.5%	46.5%
FY2021	387	209	178	54.0%	46.0%
FY2022	363	214	149	59.0%	41.0%
FY2023	243	128	115	52.7%	47.3%
FY2024	263	125	138	47.5%	52.5%
FY2025	227	117	110	51.5%	48.5%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	600	319	281	53.2%	46.8%
FY2007	414	201	213	48.6%	51.4%
FY2008	410	162	248	39.5%	60.5%
FY2009	543	219	324	40.3%	59.7%
FY2010	622	265	357	42.6%	57.4%
FY2011	599	286	313	47.7%	52.3%
FY2012	566	249	317	44.0%	56.0%
FY2013	542	270	272	49.8%	50.2%
FY2014	452	239	213	52.9%	47.1%
FY2015	421	204	217	48.5%	51.5%
FY2016	403	232	171	57.6%	42.4%
FY2017	445	267	178	60.0%	40.0%
FY2018	415	243	172	58.6%	41.4%
FY2019	375	192	183	51.2%	48.8%
FY2020	322	149	173	46.3%	53.7%
FY2021	345	168	177	48.7%	51.3%
FY2022	319	170	149	53.3%	46.7%
FY2023	192	78	114	40.6%	59.4%
FY2024	229	91	138	39.7%	60.3%
FY2025	176	66	110	37.5%	62.5%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	301	156	145	51.8%	48.2%
FY2023	170	66	104	38.8%	61.2%
FY2024	211	80	131	37.9%	62.1%
FY2025	172	64	108	37.2%	62.8%

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