District of New Hampshire

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 130
Noncitizens, FY2025: 17%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 119
Detained, FY2025: 61.3%

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	90%117	117
Prison and alternatives	1%1	1
Probation and alternatives	1%1	1
Probation only	8%11	11

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 36 months (mean 47) for the 118 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	52%68	68
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	15%20	20
Firearms	13%17	17
Child Pornography	6%8	8
Immigration	3%4	4
Sex Abuse	3%4	4
Drug Possession	2%2	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2%2	2
Robbery	2%2	2
Money Launder	1%1	1
Prison Offenses	1%1	1
Tax	1%1	1

All 130 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	80	87	117	118	114	80	54	68
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	14	20	15	23	25	22	18	20
Firearms	17	18	16	15	19	21	11	17
Immigration	28	32	23	5	0	1	6	4
Child Pornography	8	2	2	11	5	9	6	8
Sex Abuse	8	6	2	8	3	7	3	4
Robbery	7	10	3	4	5	3	1	2
Prison Offenses	5	4	9	3	1	2	5	1
Drug Possession	2	3	4	3	2	8	3	2
Money Launder	0	1	2	0	2	3	4	1
Tax	1	5	0	3	1	0	0	1
Administration of Justice	2	1	1	1	1	3	0	0
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	3	1	1	0	1	0	1	2
Stalking/Harassing	2	0	1	1	1	0	3	0
Assault	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Other	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	0
Food and Drug	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	0
Bribery/Corruption	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Commercialized Vice	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Extortion/Racketeering	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Individual Rights	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
National Defense	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	184	196	200	197	180	160	118	130

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	83%108	108
Not a U.S. citizen	17%22	22
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

4 of the 130 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
White+MENA	52%68	68
Hispanic	31%40	40
Black	12%16	16
Asian+NHPI	4%5	5
AIAN	1%1	1

All 130 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.

People sentenced by criminal history category, FY2025

People sentenced by criminal history category, FY2025
I	46%60	60
II	20%26	26
III	9%11	11
IV	5%6	6
V	5%6	6
VI	16%21	21

All 130 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	22%28	28
Above the range	3%4	4
Below the range, government-sponsored	45%59	59
Below the range, not government-sponsored	30%39	39

All 130 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	119	73	46	61.3%	38.7%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	113	67	46	59.3%	40.7%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	91	45	46	49.5%	50.5%

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 New Hampshire, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	130	114	16	0	6
FY2003	187	155	31	1	16
FY2004	220	169	48	3	31
FY2005	176	137	37	2	10
FY2006	219	181	37	1	8
FY2007	239	195	44	0	12
FY2008	223	173	50	0	8
FY2009	205	170	35	0	10
FY2010	231	195	35	1	4
FY2011	204	171	31	2	7
FY2012	158	135	23	0	12
FY2013	166	125	41	0	25
FY2014	150	117	33	0	25
FY2015	144	90	54	0	38
FY2016	177	120	57	0	34
FY2017	212	147	64	1	39
FY2018	184	141	43	0	28
FY2019	196	145	51	0	32
FY2020	200	155	45	0	23
FY2021	197	178	19	0	5
FY2022	180	169	11	0	0
FY2023	160	140	20	0	1
FY2024	118	100	18	0	6
FY2025	130	108	22	0	4

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 New Hampshire, 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	130	96	2	16	15	0	1	76%	0
FY2003*	187	137	5	16	26	3	0	76%	0
FY2004	220	177	6	12	25	0	0	83%	0
FY2005*	176	150	6	3	17	0	0	89%	0
FY2006	219	178	8	15	18	0	0	85%	0
FY2007	239	201	5	13	18	2	0	86%	0
FY2008*	223	190	7	8	18	0	0	88%	1
FY2009	205	167	8	17	13	0	0	85%	0
FY2010*	231	198	7	13	12	1	0	89%	0
FY2011	204	169	4	11	20	0	0	85%	0
FY2012	158	128	5	12	13	0	0	84%	1
FY2013	166	134	11	7	14	0	0	87%	0
FY2014	150	117	6	10	17	0	0	82%	0
FY2015	144	122	1	7	14	0	0	85%	0
FY2016	177	150	6	5	15	1	0	88%	0
FY2017	212	184	5	7	16	0	0	89%	0
FY2018	184	161	5	7	11	0	0	90%	0
FY2019*	196	169	4	12	11	0	0	88%	0
FY2020	200	173	8	3	16	0	0	91%	0
FY2021	197	165	11	5	16	0	0	89%	0
FY2022	180	153	7	3	17	0	0	89%	0
FY2023	160	140	6	2	12	0	0	91%	0
FY2024*	118	104	2	2	10	0	0	90%	0
FY2025	130	117	1	1	11	0	0	91%	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 New Hampshire, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	38	18	129	49	27	98
FY2003*	42	24	187	54	37	142
FY2004	40	27	220	48	37	181
FY2005*	44	26	176	49	30	155
FY2006	41	24	218	47	27	185
FY2007	46	30	239	55	41	200
FY2008*	51	26	223	59	33	189
FY2009	40	22	205	49	33	163
FY2010*	52	30	231	63	37	189
FY2011	39	23	204	49	30	163
FY2012	44	24	158	56	36	123
FY2013	38	21	166	46	30	135
FY2014	40	15	150	53	24	113
FY2015	34	18	144	41	26	116
FY2016	38	24	177	46	33	147
FY2017	41	24	212	50	30	172
FY2018	54	30	184	60	38	166
FY2019*	50	24	196	56	36	173
FY2020	35	15	200	38	18	181
FY2021	44	24	197	49	30	176
FY2022	38	24	180	42	37	160
FY2023	40	20	160	43	24	146
FY2024*	40	24	118	44	30	106
FY2025	43	30	130	47	36	118

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 New Hampshire by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	50	72	102	66	90	103	109	92
Fraud	34	39	21	36	48	36	36	29
Firearms	8	13	26	28	23	39	27	22
Immigration	6	16	31	10	8	12	8	10
Robbery	5	9	12	8	9	10	11	11
Racketeering/Extortion	1	7	5	8	5	4	8	4
Larceny	6	5	2	1	1	3	4	10
Administration of Justice	4	4	3	4	3	6	3	1
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	3	5	5	4	6	1	1	2
Forgery/Counterfeiting	3	2	4	0	2	3	2	8
Pornography/Prostitution	0	3	1	4	3	5	3	4
Money Laundering	1	3	0	0	4	4	3	5
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	3	4	1	2	3	1	1
Drugs - Simple Possession	2	2	0	0	7	3	0	1
Tax Offenses	1	1	1	0	2	1	3	0
Sexual Abuse	0	0	0	2	2	1	3	0
Assault	0	1	0	2	1	2	0	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3
Auto Theft	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bribery	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0
Embezzlement	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Prison Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All offenses	130	187	220	176	219	239	223	205

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 New Hampshire by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	94	82	62	48	37	24	40	62
Fraud	42	38	26	28	27	31	30	26
Firearms	36	30	18	15	15	22	20	29
Immigration	4	7	12	25	25	38	34	39
Robbery	17	15	16	14	12	9	13	12
Child Pornography	6	4	6	5	11	7	14	11
Administration of Justice	6	6	4	10	9	2	4	5
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	3	5	3	7	3	1	2	3
Prison Offenses	0	1	1	1	2	4	2	12
Forgery/Counterfeiting	9	0	1	2	2	0	2	0
Larceny	2	4	2	0	1	1	2	3
Racketeering/Extortion	5	3	1	2	1	0	2	1
Drugs - Simple Possession	4	2	0	1	0	2	1	4
Tax Offenses	2	1	2	1	1	1	4	0
Sexual Abuse	0	1	1	0	0	0	5	1
Food and Drug Offenses	1	0	0	0	1	2	2	1
Money Laundering	0	1	1	3	0	0	0	1
Embezzlement	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1
Assault	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Bribery	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	231	204	158	166	150	144	177	212

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 New Hampshire by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	68	52%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	20	15%
Firearms	17	13%
Child Pornography	8	6%
Immigration	4	3%
Sex Abuse	4	3%
Drug Possession	2	2%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	2%
Robbery	2	2%
Money Launder	1	1%
Prison Offenses	1	1%
Tax	1	1%

All 130 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 New Hampshire by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Share
White+MENA	68	52%
Hispanic	40	31%
Black	16	12%
Asian+NHPI	5	4%
AIAN	1	1%

All 130 people sentenced.

Hispanic is of any race; the other groups are not Hispanic. White+MENA includes Middle Eastern and North African people.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

People sentenced in the District of New Hampshire by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	60	46%
II	26	20%
III	11	9%
IV	6	5%
V	6	5%
VI	21	16%

All 130 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 New Hampshire against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	28	22%
Above the range	4	3%
Below the range, government-sponsored	59	45%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	39	30%

All 130 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 New Hampshire, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	236	121	115	51.3%	48.7%
FY2007	232	111	121	47.8%	52.2%
FY2008	201	100	101	49.8%	50.2%
FY2009	233	113	120	48.5%	51.5%
FY2010	194	90	104	46.4%	53.6%
FY2011	149	79	70	53.0%	47.0%
FY2012	146	68	78	46.6%	53.4%
FY2013	124	62	62	50.0%	50.0%
FY2014	175	92	83	52.6%	47.4%
FY2015	169	102	67	60.4%	39.6%
FY2016	182	112	70	61.5%	38.5%
FY2017	176	99	77	56.3%	43.8%
FY2018	179	113	66	63.1%	36.9%
FY2019	244	116	128	47.5%	52.5%
FY2020	171	82	89	48.0%	52.0%
FY2021	216	101	115	46.8%	53.2%
FY2022	138	63	75	45.7%	54.3%
FY2023	105	50	55	47.6%	52.4%
FY2024	131	61	70	46.6%	53.4%
FY2025	119	73	46	61.3%	38.7%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	226	114	112	50.4%	49.6%
FY2007	227	106	121	46.7%	53.3%
FY2008	195	94	101	48.2%	51.8%
FY2009	231	111	120	48.1%	51.9%
FY2010	191	87	104	45.5%	54.5%
FY2011	141	71	70	50.4%	49.6%
FY2012	137	59	78	43.1%	56.9%
FY2013	104	42	62	40.4%	59.6%
FY2014	143	60	83	42.0%	58.0%
FY2015	131	64	67	48.9%	51.1%
FY2016	142	73	69	51.4%	48.6%
FY2017	141	67	74	47.5%	52.5%
FY2018	150	86	64	57.3%	42.7%
FY2019	221	97	124	43.9%	56.1%
FY2020	150	67	83	44.7%	55.3%
FY2021	214	100	114	46.7%	53.3%
FY2022	137	62	75	45.3%	54.7%
FY2023	104	49	55	47.1%	52.9%
FY2024	130	60	70	46.2%	53.8%
FY2025	113	67	46	59.3%	40.7%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	130	57	73	43.8%	56.2%
FY2023	95	43	52	45.3%	54.7%
FY2024	121	52	69	43.0%	57.0%
FY2025	91	45	46	49.5%	50.5%

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