District of Puerto Rico

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 972
Noncitizens, FY2025: 28%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 922
Detained, FY2025: 69.4%

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%791	791
Prison and alternatives	1%6	6
Probation and alternatives	<1%2	2
Probation only	18%171	171
Fine only	<1%2	2

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 60 months (mean 63) for the 797 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	48%467	467
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	14%137	137
Immigration	11%102	102
Firearms	10%101	101
Money Launder	4%39	39
Robbery	4%35	35
Child Pornography	2%21	21
Administration of Justice	2%16	16
Sex Abuse	1%14	14
Murder	1%12	12
Environmental	1%7	7
Assault	<1%4	4
Bribery/Corruption	<1%4	4
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%3	3
Drug Possession	<1%2	2
Food and Drug	<1%2	2
Prison Offenses	<1%2	2
Stalking/Harassing	<1%2	2
Individual Rights	<1%1	1
Manslaughter	<1%1	1

All 972 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	285	494	435	446	398	585	653	467
Firearms	180	243	173	165	115	121	102	101
Immigration	113	174	159	72	66	104	71	102
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	48	69	28	64	68	60	103	137
Robbery	40	72	57	53	44	67	37	35
Money Launder	19	24	13	20	23	31	36	39
Sex Abuse	21	21	9	9	18	26	21	14
Murder	3	30	15	12	23	20	18	12
Child Pornography	16	13	9	8	19	11	27	21
Administration of Justice	12	9	7	6	7	15	16	16
Bribery/Corruption	6	3	2	7	12	12	7	4
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	4	1	0	5	5	8	1	3
Extortion/Racketeering	0	1	5	0	2	12	4	0
Environmental	2	0	0	6	3	1	4	7
Assault	0	0	5	1	4	4	1	4
Prison Offenses	1	3	1	4	2	4	1	2
Food and Drug	1	3	0	0	1	2	4	2
Individual Rights	3	0	0	0	2	2	3	1
Other	1	1	0	0	1	0	6	0
Stalking/Harassing	2	2	1	0	1	1	0	2
Kidnapping	0	0	0	2	1	1	4	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	0	0	2	3	0	1	0	0
Drug Possession	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
Burglary/Trespass	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Commercialized Vice	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Tax	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Arson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
All offenses	760	1,165	922	884	815	1,090	1,120	972

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	72%696	696
Not a U.S. citizen	28%275	275
Citizenship not known	<1%1	1

102 of the 972 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Hispanic, 9 placed by CrimeDB	99%961	961
Black	1%5	5
White+MENA	<1%2	2
Asian+NHPI	<1%1	1
Race unknown	<1%3	3

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 972 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 9 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	74%718	718
II	14%135	135
III	9%83	83
IV	2%18	18
V	1%11	11
VI	<1%3	3
Category not known	<1%4	4

All 972 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	45%433	433
Above the range	4%42	42
Below the range, government-sponsored	34%331	331
Below the range, not government-sponsored	17%165	165
Not known or not comparable	<1%1	1

All 972 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	922	640	282	69.4%	30.6%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	828	571	257	69.0%	31.0%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	731	482	249	65.9%	34.1%

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 Puerto Rico, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	902	620	216	66	75
FY2003	843	595	207	41	76
FY2004	657	447	150	60	116
FY2005	584	380	172	32	114
FY2006	569	346	192	31	108
FY2007	772	549	180	43	134
FY2008	754	455	203	96	182
FY2009	697	442	232	23	185
FY2010	881	673	187	21	149
FY2011	1,196	943	162	91	111
FY2012	1,450	962	230	258	161
FY2013	1,488	1,235	213	40	103
FY2014	1,477	1,266	211	0	126
FY2015	1,478	1,297	174	7	94
FY2016	1,086	873	213	0	125
FY2017	980	743	235	2	169
FY2018	760	586	172	2	113
FY2019	1,165	901	260	4	174
FY2020	922	664	253	5	159
FY2021	884	738	143	3	72
FY2022	815	637	175	3	66
FY2023	1,090	772	317	1	104
FY2024	1,120	726	392	2	71
FY2025	972	696	275	1	102

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 Puerto Rico, 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	902	748	24	38	79	7	6	86%	17
FY2003*	843	734	16	38	35	3	17	91%	6
FY2004	657	569	7	23	22	7	29	92%	4
FY2005*	584	488	21	29	42	1	3	88%	1
FY2006	569	509	17	16	25	1	1	93%	7
FY2007	772	685	17	25	43	1	1	91%	3
FY2008*	754	627	7	33	87	0	0	84%	5
FY2009	697	608	9	23	57	0	0	89%	4
FY2010*	881	743	8	16	113	1	0	85%	5
FY2011	1,196	971	14	30	177	4	0	82%	7
FY2012	1,450	1,071	23	46	309	1	0	75%	7
FY2013	1,488	1,360	16	11	100	1	0	92%	7
FY2014	1,477	1,311	32	21	111	2	0	91%	11
FY2015	1,478	1,319	28	23	105	2	1	91%	0
FY2016	1,086	963	18	19	86	0	0	90%	2
FY2017	980	896	18	8	57	1	0	93%	1
FY2018	760	664	33	17	46	0	0	92%	2
FY2019*	1,165	1,023	31	5	106	0	0	90%	4
FY2020	922	822	20	6	74	0	0	91%	4
FY2021	884	759	19	8	98	0	0	88%	1
FY2022	815	730	6	6	72	1	0	90%	0
FY2023	1,090	995	8	4	82	1	0	92%	2
FY2024*	1,120	974	2	1	139	4	0	87%	4
FY2025	972	791	6	2	171	2	0	82%	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 Puerto Rico, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	64	46	895	75	49	758
FY2003*	74	48	824	82	60	733
FY2004	62	46	602	71	57	521
FY2005*	61	37	579	71	48	496
FY2006	66	46	566	74	57	504
FY2007	63	46	771	72	60	672
FY2008*	52	27	754	68	46	570
FY2009	57	33	697	69	60	576
FY2010*	63	60	881	79	63	701
FY2011	57	57	1,195	72	60	932
FY2012	49	37	1,450	69	60	1,033
FY2013	67	60	1,488	75	60	1,319
FY2014	63	60	1,477	72	60	1,293
FY2015	63	60	1,478	71	60	1,307
FY2016	59	46	1,086	70	60	915
FY2017	51	37	980	58	46	873
FY2018	56	37	760	61	46	697
FY2019*	59	46	1,165	65	60	1,054
FY2020	57	47	922	63	57	842
FY2021	55	46	884	63	60	778
FY2022	63	60	815	69	60	736
FY2023	67	60	1,090	73	64	1,003
FY2024*	62	60	1,120	71	70	976
FY2025	52	37	972	63	60	797

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 Puerto Rico by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	588	543	358	279	291	347	280	302
Immigration	75	76	116	114	108	134	182	185
Firearms	18	37	31	27	38	116	90	76
Fraud	51	38	40	58	44	30	76	41
Money Laundering	36	40	31	36	35	59	29	35
Racketeering/Extortion	25	41	9	15	2	4	12	5
Administration of Justice	29	10	10	5	5	19	19	12
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	6	3	16	8	8	10	17	9
Pornography/Prostitution	4	8	10	8	6	13	7	9
Auto Theft	8	10	8	2	9	9	6	9
Robbery	13	2	4	3	3	8	8	1
Larceny	7	8	11	6	1	1	7	0
Assault	1	6	4	4	7	2	0	3
Bribery	9	3	1	5	3	4	0	1
Embezzlement	7	6	0	3	2	2	5	1
Forgery/Counterfeiting	3	1	1	4	1	3	5	5
Food and Drug Offenses	9	2	1	1	2	1	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	2	0	0	1	2	2	6	1
Prison Offenses	3	0	0	2	2	2	2	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	0
Arson	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	0	2	1	0	2	0	0
Sexual Abuse	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1
Drugs - Communication Facilities	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Murder	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Offense type not known	5	3	1	1	0	0	0	0
All offenses	902	843	657	584	569	772	754	697

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 Puerto Rico by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	486	672	676	675	665	580	396	302
Firearms	64	117	161	427	366	480	339	309
Fraud	81	211	329	86	115	112	80	56
Immigration	149	111	161	103	126	94	125	169
Racketeering/Extortion	10	2	2	27	34	30	29	25
Money Laundering	8	13	26	21	19	19	25	17
Child Pornography	3	12	13	15	24	24	21	28
Administration of Justice	13	7	20	19	23	26	12	13
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	27	11	19	18	13	20	14	10
Auto Theft	5	1	12	32	25	18	10	13
Larceny	3	6	5	26	22	12	7	8
Sexual Abuse	4	0	0	0	8	12	5	12
Embezzlement	2	1	2	5	10	12	0	3
Bribery	1	1	7	11	2	4	4	2
Assault	3	5	0	2	4	3	6	6
Robbery	2	3	1	4	2	12	3	2
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	4	1	1	5	7	1	0
Food and Drug Offenses	1	1	1	0	4	5	5	2
Forgery/Counterfeiting	6	0	3	5	2	3	0	0
Prison Offenses	0	2	5	8	1	0	1	0
Civil Rights Offenses	7	2	2	0	0	1	1	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	4	2	1	2	2	1	0	1
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	9	1	0	0	0	0	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	2	1	0	0	1	1	1
Murder	0	0	0	1	3	0	1	0
Tax Offenses	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0
Manslaughter	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Antitrust Violations	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Arson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
All offenses	881	1,196	1,450	1,488	1,477	1,478	1,086	980

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 Puerto Rico by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	467	48%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	137	14%
Immigration	102	11%
Firearms	101	10%
Money Launder	39	4%
Robbery	35	4%
Child Pornography	21	2%
Administration of Justice	16	2%
Sex Abuse	14	1%
Murder	12	1%
Environmental	7	1%
Assault	4	<1%
Bribery/Corruption	4	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	3	<1%
Drug Possession	2	<1%
Food and Drug	2	<1%
Prison Offenses	2	<1%
Stalking/Harassing	2	<1%
Individual Rights	1	<1%
Manslaughter	1	<1%

All 972 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 Puerto Rico by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Hispanic	961	9	99%
Black	5	0	1%
White+MENA	2	0	<1%
Asian+NHPI	1	0	<1%
Race unknown	3	0	<1%

All 972 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 9 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 Puerto Rico by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	718	74%
II	135	14%
III	83	9%
IV	18	2%
V	11	1%
VI	3	<1%
Category not known	4	<1%

All 972 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 Puerto Rico against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	433	45%
Above the range	42	4%
Below the range, government-sponsored	331	34%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	165	17%
Not known or not comparable	1	<1%

All 972 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 Puerto Rico, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	801	589	212	73.5%	26.5%
FY2007	1,094	680	414	62.2%	37.8%
FY2008	1,303	855	448	65.6%	34.4%
FY2009	878	689	189	78.5%	21.5%
FY2010	1,251	821	430	65.6%	34.4%
FY2011	1,730	827	903	47.8%	52.2%
FY2012	1,732	1,342	390	77.5%	22.5%
FY2013	1,865	1,178	687	63.2%	36.8%
FY2014	1,498	1,067	431	71.2%	28.8%
FY2015	1,330	928	402	69.8%	30.2%
FY2016	1,420	973	447	68.5%	31.5%
FY2017	1,161	842	319	72.5%	27.5%
FY2018	1,285	1,014	271	78.9%	21.1%
FY2019	1,235	906	329	73.4%	26.6%
FY2020	682	469	213	68.8%	31.2%
FY2021	993	737	256	74.2%	25.8%
FY2022	972	689	283	70.9%	29.1%
FY2023	965	602	363	62.4%	37.6%
FY2024	870	547	323	62.9%	37.1%
FY2025	922	640	282	69.4%	30.6%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	717	512	205	71.4%	28.6%
FY2007	984	574	410	58.3%	41.7%
FY2008	1,197	749	448	62.6%	37.4%
FY2009	734	554	180	75.5%	24.5%
FY2010	1,177	751	426	63.8%	36.2%
FY2011	1,640	745	895	45.4%	54.6%
FY2012	1,626	1,241	385	76.3%	23.7%
FY2013	1,782	1,108	674	62.2%	37.8%
FY2014	1,421	998	423	70.2%	29.8%
FY2015	1,267	873	394	68.9%	31.1%
FY2016	1,254	823	431	65.6%	34.4%
FY2017	1,036	722	314	69.7%	30.3%
FY2018	1,147	877	270	76.5%	23.5%
FY2019	1,051	730	321	69.5%	30.5%
FY2020	588	390	198	66.3%	33.7%
FY2021	928	677	251	73.0%	27.0%
FY2022	882	604	278	68.5%	31.5%
FY2023	885	538	347	60.8%	39.2%
FY2024	818	497	321	60.8%	39.2%
FY2025	828	571	257	69.0%	31.0%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	668	396	272	59.3%	40.7%
FY2023	718	382	336	53.2%	46.8%
FY2024	712	403	309	56.6%	43.4%
FY2025	731	482	249	65.9%	34.1%

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