District of New Jersey

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 673
Noncitizens, FY2025: 20%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 676
Detained, FY2025: 45.4%

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	81%542	542
Prison and alternatives	4%25	25
Probation and alternatives	5%31	31
Probation only	11%74	74
Fine only	<1%1	1

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 37 months (mean 55) for the 567 sentenced to prison, 6 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	32%216	216
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	20%132	132
Firearms	12%83	83
Immigration	7%49	49
Tax	5%30	30
Money Launder	4%29	29
Robbery	3%23	23
Child Pornography	3%21	21
Bribery/Corruption	3%19	19
Assault	2%12	12
Sex Abuse	2%11	11
Murder	2%10	10
Administration of Justice	1%8	8
Extortion/Racketeering	1%5	5
Individual Rights	1%4	4
Environmental	<1%3	3
Other	<1%3	3
Prison Offenses	<1%3	3
Stalking/Harassing	<1%3	3
Drug Possession	<1%2	2
Food and Drug	<1%2	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%2	2
Commercialized Vice	<1%1	1
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	<1%1	1
Kidnapping	<1%1	1

All 673 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	123	163	202	230	210	294	325	216
Firearms	74	129	115	121	151	146	163	83
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	86	100	98	127	139	119	144	132
Immigration	38	65	73	30	20	21	31	49
Robbery	27	24	14	19	9	20	26	23
Tax	19	22	18	28	10	16	14	30
Money Launder	16	6	10	11	17	23	20	29
Child Pornography	13	20	6	9	12	11	23	21
Bribery/Corruption	26	15	10	7	11	9	16	19
Administration of Justice	4	8	11	4	9	14	13	8
Drug Possession	10	24	15	7	3	2	1	2
Assault	4	1	3	6	7	11	12	12
Sex Abuse	5	7	2	7	3	8	8	11
Murder	3	4	2	2	3	8	5	10
Individual Rights	0	1	3	4	10	2	1	4
Extortion/Racketeering	3	4	1	0	2	2	7	5
Prison Offenses	2	2	0	4	5	3	2	3
Environmental	0	7	2	1	3	2	1	3
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	3	5	4	1	0	0	3	1
National Defense	2	3	0	2	5	2	2	0
Commercialized Vice	4	4	0	1	1	1	1	1
Stalking/Harassing	0	1	2	2	0	2	3	3
Other	0	1	1	3	0	1	3	3
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	0	7	4	0	0
Kidnapping	3	1	0	0	1	1	4	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	0	2	2	1	0	0	1	2
Arson	0	0	0	1	3	1	1	0
Food and Drug	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	2
Antitrust	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	467	620	595	629	641	723	830	673

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	80%538	538
Not a U.S. citizen	20%132	132
Citizenship not known	<1%3	3

49 of the 673 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Hispanic	43%288	288
White+MENA	26%174	174
Black	26%173	173
Asian+NHPI, 3 placed by CrimeDB	4%26	26
Race unknown	2%12	12

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 673 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 3 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	55%368	368
II	13%85	85
III	11%76	76
IV	5%35	35
V	5%31	31
VI	11%71	71
Category not known	1%7	7

All 673 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	29%194	194
Above the range	2%14	14
Below the range, government-sponsored	50%336	336
Below the range, not government-sponsored	18%122	122
Not known or not comparable	1%7	7

All 673 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	676	307	369	45.4%	54.6%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	583	266	317	45.6%	54.4%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	586	232	354	39.6%	60.4%

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 Jersey, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	835	544	184	107	47
FY2003	875	588	270	17	39
FY2004	813	528	215	70	39
FY2005	1,010	745	256	9	62
FY2006	941	677	259	5	52
FY2007	1,013	754	255	4	57
FY2008	1,000	793	205	2	46
FY2009	892	683	206	3	59
FY2010	818	640	176	2	54
FY2011	805	611	189	5	53
FY2012	854	613	231	10	45
FY2013	787	607	169	11	43
FY2014	668	527	135	6	46
FY2015	701	581	117	3	31
FY2016	669	559	109	1	32
FY2017	594	485	107	2	27
FY2018	467	383	84	0	38
FY2019	620	493	125	2	65
FY2020	595	438	156	1	73
FY2021	629	516	112	1	30
FY2022	641	542	99	0	20
FY2023	723	609	113	1	21
FY2024	830	695	135	0	31
FY2025	673	538	132	3	49

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 Jersey, 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	835	601	19	87	122	5	1	74%	6
FY2003*	875	620	25	75	144	9	2	74%	1
FY2004	813	581	36	65	112	0	19	78%	0
FY2005*	1,010	741	24	102	131	1	11	77%	0
FY2006	941	695	38	70	122	1	15	79%	3
FY2007	1,013	795	38	91	88	1	0	82%	4
FY2008*	1,000	754	29	104	106	2	5	79%	1
FY2009	892	688	16	91	89	3	5	79%	8
FY2010*	818	637	29	69	83	0	0	81%	1
FY2011	805	578	47	78	101	1	0	78%	1
FY2012	854	656	44	61	93	0	0	82%	1
FY2013	787	597	47	65	78	0	0	82%	1
FY2014	668	480	34	73	78	3	0	77%	0
FY2015	701	509	41	64	84	3	0	78%	0
FY2016	669	492	32	42	103	0	0	78%	3
FY2017	594	442	24	34	93	1	0	78%	5
FY2018	467	366	18	36	47	0	0	82%	1
FY2019*	620	485	25	32	77	1	0	82%	2
FY2020	595	488	21	29	57	0	0	86%	1
FY2021	629	507	33	43	46	0	0	86%	0
FY2022	641	540	32	20	49	0	0	89%	0
FY2023	723	614	23	32	53	1	0	88%	0
FY2024*	830	695	33	35	67	0	0	88%	0
FY2025	673	542	25	31	74	1	0	84%	6

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 Jersey, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	43	24	834	57	37	616
FY2003*	40	24	873	53	37	644
FY2004	40	26	793	51	37	612
FY2005*	38	26	999	49	37	762
FY2006	46	30	927	57	37	731
FY2007	46	30	1,013	55	37	829
FY2008*	47	30	995	59	41	778
FY2009	50	30	887	62	41	700
FY2010*	46	30	818	56	42	662
FY2011	42	24	805	55	37	609
FY2012	43	30	854	53	37	683
FY2013	44	26	787	54	37	625
FY2014	40	24	668	52	36	498
FY2015	44	24	701	55	37	541
FY2016	47	27	669	62	45	497
FY2017	54	36	594	70	51	451
FY2018	52	36	467	62	41	384
FY2019*	46	28	620	55	37	510
FY2020	40	27	595	46	33	509
FY2021	42	27	629	48	33	540
FY2022	46	30	641	51	36	572
FY2023	47	33	723	53	37	637
FY2024*	45	30	830	51	36	728
FY2025	47	27	673	55	37	567

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 Jersey by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	288	281	257	314	292	310	304	259
Fraud	172	212	178	197	188	171	177	159
Firearms	55	85	77	81	83	124	134	106
Immigration	47	39	39	62	52	57	46	59
Larceny	38	35	34	27	22	31	22	40
Tax Offenses	18	25	17	40	23	38	43	32
Pornography/Prostitution	15	11	10	40	33	41	39	41
Racketeering/Extortion	29	22	9	22	38	45	32	29
Robbery	29	28	27	34	25	19	20	19
Money Laundering	17	13	17	33	26	25	29	26
Administration of Justice	21	7	16	26	30	26	30	19
Embezzlement	28	26	22	18	16	23	10	14
Drugs - Simple Possession	11	15	28	33	24	10	14	21
Forgery/Counterfeiting	16	12	31	17	21	19	25	12
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	12	16	10	13	18	26	14	17
Bribery	10	3	6	9	14	9	25	11
Assault	5	15	9	8	3	5	2	4
Drugs - Communication Facilities	3	5	5	5	5	5	13	4
Prison Offenses	3	4	6	7	6	9	6	2
Gambling/Lottery	2	2	1	15	11	5	2	0
Sexual Abuse	4	8	3	3	1	5	5	3
Food and Drug Offenses	1	1	2	5	1	6	5	4
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	2	4	1	1	1	0	1	3
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	5	0	0	1	2	1
Auto Theft	2	0	1	0	3	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	2	1	1	0	2	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	5
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2
Antitrust Violations	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arson	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
Offense type not known	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	835	875	813	1,010	941	1,013	1,000	892

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 Jersey by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	194	222	236	224	157	167	185	175
Fraud	160	151	219	145	159	155	155	129
Firearms	137	100	105	113	90	89	78	70
Immigration	54	53	45	43	46	31	32	27
Racketeering/Extortion	29	33	37	16	13	69	28	37
Tax Offenses	37	35	37	30	32	19	17	23
Child Pornography	34	21	24	29	20	20	16	19
Larceny	18	21	14	25	28	16	13	13
Drugs - Simple Possession	11	17	15	21	14	25	22	20
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	17	21	17	22	21	23	16	3
Robbery	32	20	22	17	8	13	12	10
Administration of Justice	20	18	15	19	17	15	16	8
Money Laundering	22	20	14	15	16	8	14	10
Bribery	7	8	12	14	11	10	12	5
Prison Offenses	8	8	8	14	9	10	9	2
Embezzlement	15	15	6	4	1	5	7	13
Forgery/Counterfeiting	13	14	8	7	3	1	1	4
Assault	0	1	8	7	2	4	7	4
Auto Theft	0	0	2	2	7	3	6	3
Sexual Abuse	1	4	1	0	4	4	5	4
Drugs - Communication Facilities	4	0	2	6	1	2	2	5
Gambling/Lottery	1	12	3	1	4	0	0	0
Antitrust Violations	0	1	0	1	1	1	11	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	2	0	2	3	6	1	0
Food and Drug Offenses	1	7	1	0	0	1	0	2
Civil Rights Offenses	1	1	1	3	0	1	1	1
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	3	0	1	3	2
Murder	1	0	2	2	1	1	0	1
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
Arson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Manslaughter	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
All offenses	818	805	854	787	668	701	669	594

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 Jersey by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	216	32%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	132	20%
Firearms	83	12%
Immigration	49	7%
Tax	30	5%
Money Launder	29	4%
Robbery	23	3%
Child Pornography	21	3%
Bribery/Corruption	19	3%
Assault	12	2%
Sex Abuse	11	2%
Murder	10	2%
Administration of Justice	8	1%
Extortion/Racketeering	5	1%
Individual Rights	4	1%
Environmental	3	<1%
Other	3	<1%
Prison Offenses	3	<1%
Stalking/Harassing	3	<1%
Drug Possession	2	<1%
Food and Drug	2	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	<1%
Commercialized Vice	1	<1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1	<1%
Kidnapping	1	<1%

All 673 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 Jersey by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Hispanic	288	0	43%
White+MENA	174	0	26%
Black	173	0	26%
Asian+NHPI	26	3	4%
Race unknown	12	0	2%

All 673 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 3 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 New Jersey by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	368	55%
II	85	13%
III	76	11%
IV	35	5%
V	31	5%
VI	71	11%
Category not known	7	1%

All 673 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 Jersey against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	194	29%
Above the range	14	2%
Below the range, government-sponsored	336	50%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	122	18%
Not known or not comparable	7	1%

All 673 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 Jersey, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	1,095	486	609	44.4%	55.6%
FY2007	1,053	411	642	39.0%	61.0%
FY2008	1,031	381	650	37.0%	63.0%
FY2009	1,049	418	631	39.8%	60.2%
FY2010	1,026	351	675	34.2%	65.8%
FY2011	987	409	578	41.4%	58.6%
FY2012	970	339	631	34.9%	65.1%
FY2013	919	385	534	41.9%	58.1%
FY2014	712	281	431	39.5%	60.5%
FY2015	728	265	463	36.4%	63.6%
FY2016	528	160	368	30.3%	69.7%
FY2017	618	220	398	35.6%	64.4%
FY2018	806	342	464	42.4%	57.6%
FY2019	1,212	554	658	45.7%	54.3%
FY2020	1,099	436	663	39.7%	60.3%
FY2021	1,018	421	597	41.4%	58.6%
FY2022	738	317	421	43.0%	57.0%
FY2023	554	253	301	45.7%	54.3%
FY2024	610	283	327	46.4%	53.6%
FY2025	676	307	369	45.4%	54.6%

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 Jersey, excluding immigration cases (Table H-14A)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	1,069	460	609	43.0%	57.0%
FY2007	1,029	387	642	37.6%	62.4%
FY2008	1,000	350	650	35.0%	65.0%
FY2009	1,012	381	631	37.6%	62.4%
FY2010	1,001	326	675	32.6%	67.4%
FY2011	959	381	578	39.7%	60.3%
FY2012	941	310	631	32.9%	67.1%
FY2013	886	353	533	39.8%	60.2%
FY2014	685	255	430	37.2%	62.8%
FY2015	707	245	462	34.7%	65.3%
FY2016	516	148	368	28.7%	71.3%
FY2017	593	195	398	32.9%	67.1%
FY2018	756	293	463	38.8%	61.2%
FY2019	1,145	488	657	42.6%	57.4%
FY2020	1,053	390	663	37.0%	63.0%
FY2021	995	398	597	40.0%	60.0%
FY2022	715	295	420	41.3%	58.7%
FY2023	526	225	301	42.8%	57.2%
FY2024	583	256	327	43.9%	56.1%
FY2025	583	266	317	45.6%	54.4%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	672	261	411	38.8%	61.2%
FY2023	492	196	296	39.8%	60.2%
FY2024	528	210	318	39.8%	60.2%
FY2025	586	232	354	39.6%	60.4%

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