District of Rhode Island

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 99
Noncitizens, FY2025: 26%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 88
Detained, FY2025: 44.3%

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	81%80	80
Prison and alternatives	12%12	12
Probation and alternatives	2%2	2
Probation only	5%5	5

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 33 months (mean 58) for the 92 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
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	35%35	35
Drug Trafficking	27%27	27
Child Pornography	11%11	11
Immigration	6%6	6
Sex Abuse	5%5	5
Firearms	3%3	3
Administration of Justice	2%2	2
Money Launder	2%2	2
Prison Offenses	2%2	2
Robbery	2%2	2
Arson	1%1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1%1	1
Other	1%1	1
Tax	1%1	1

All 99 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	49	47	37	28	30	35	48	27
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	11	18	26	18	38	36	27	35
Firearms	7	16	9	6	8	7	7	3
Child Pornography	5	8	1	6	14	7	8	11
Immigration	8	13	12	3	1	3	3	6
Sex Abuse	4	11	3	5	1	3	3	5
Tax	1	6	2	2	4	2	3	1
Money Launder	3	0	0	2	5	3	3	2
Robbery	2	3	2	2	0	2	0	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	0	2	1	1	1	1	2	1
Prison Offenses	0	1	4	0	0	0	1	2
Administration of Justice	0	0	2	1	0	0	2	2
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1	3	0	1	1	1	0	0
Assault	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0
Arson	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1
Environmental	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
Extortion/Racketeering	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0
Other	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
Burglary/Trespass	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Food and Drug	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Stalking/Harassing	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Drug Possession	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
National Defense	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	93	135	100	75	109	106	109	99

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	74%73	73
Not a U.S. citizen	26%26	26
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

6 of the 99 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Hispanic	49%48	48
White+MENA	27%27	27
Black	19%19	19
Asian+NHPI	3%3	3
AIAN	1%1	1
Race unknown	1%1	1

All 99 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	57%56	56
II	12%12	12
III	12%12	12
IV	3%3	3
V	1%1	1
VI	14%14	14
Category not known	1%1	1

All 99 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	31%31	31
Above the range	1%1	1
Below the range, government-sponsored	32%32	32
Below the range, not government-sponsored	34%34	34
Not known or not comparable	1%1	1

All 99 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	88	39	49	44.3%	55.7%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	83	34	49	41.0%	59.0%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	76	27	49	35.5%	64.5%

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 Rhode Island, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	150	85	63	2	32
FY2003	124	72	52	0	23
FY2004	139	98	41	0	17
FY2005	125	90	35	0	16
FY2006	126	81	45	0	23
FY2007	143	89	54	0	23
FY2008	89	65	24	0	13
FY2009	131	101	30	0	14
FY2010	159	112	47	0	22
FY2011	212	152	60	0	33
FY2012	197	130	65	2	40
FY2013	152	109	43	0	25
FY2014	173	128	45	0	19
FY2015	120	93	27	0	12
FY2016	90	69	21	0	8
FY2017	99	71	27	1	16
FY2018	93	72	21	0	8
FY2019	135	99	36	0	13
FY2020	100	71	29	0	12
FY2021	75	57	18	0	3
FY2022	109	87	22	0	1
FY2023	106	87	18	1	3
FY2024	109	82	27	0	3
FY2025	99	73	26	0	6

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 Rhode Island, 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	150	142	2	4	2	0	0	96%	1
FY2003*	124	110	3	3	7	0	1	92%	2
FY2004	139	126	2	4	7	0	0	92%	1
FY2005*	125	112	6	3	4	0	0	94%	1
FY2006	126	116	7	0	3	0	0	98%	0
FY2007	143	124	12	2	5	0	0	95%	0
FY2008*	89	66	10	8	5	0	0	85%	0
FY2009	131	104	8	6	13	0	0	85%	0
FY2010*	159	129	10	7	13	0	0	87%	0
FY2011	212	167	10	16	18	1	0	83%	0
FY2012	197	164	8	10	15	0	0	87%	0
FY2013	152	130	5	7	10	0	0	89%	1
FY2014	173	123	8	12	29	1	0	76%	1
FY2015	120	86	5	16	13	0	0	76%	0
FY2016	90	70	7	3	10	0	0	86%	0
FY2017	99	74	9	5	11	0	0	84%	0
FY2018	93	74	8	5	6	0	0	88%	0
FY2019*	135	103	7	6	19	0	0	81%	0
FY2020	100	76	9	4	11	0	0	85%	0
FY2021	75	62	1	6	6	0	0	84%	1
FY2022	109	78	20	4	7	0	0	90%	0
FY2023	106	73	18	0	15	0	0	86%	0
FY2024*	109	82	12	0	15	0	0	86%	0
FY2025	99	80	12	2	5	0	0	93%	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 Rhode Island, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	67	46	150	70	46	144
FY2003*	72	37	123	78	41	113
FY2004	65	46	139	71	51	128
FY2005*	72	48	125	76	60	118
FY2006	71	46	126	73	48	123
FY2007	69	46	143	72	50	136
FY2008*	54	37	89	62	41	76
FY2009	51	33	131	59	50	110
FY2010*	46	36	159	52	37	138
FY2011	42	30	212	53	46	167
FY2012	42	30	197	49	37	167
FY2013	53	30	152	63	41	127
FY2014	41	18	173	56	36	126
FY2015	36	24	120	48	36	86
FY2016	38	24	90	46	39	74
FY2017	33	24	99	43	30	74
FY2018	35	29	93	39	36	82
FY2019*	46	21	135	55	36	110
FY2020	30	21	100	34	24	85
FY2021	50	36	75	59	42	63
FY2022	42	30	109	46	35	98
FY2023	38	28	106	43	33	91
FY2024*	35	20	109	40	24	94
FY2025	54	30	99	58	33	92

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 Rhode Island by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	65	47	52	45	45	48	20	48
Firearms	24	21	35	25	20	18	13	14
Immigration	32	23	17	16	23	23	13	14
Fraud	15	15	11	7	12	25	20	21
Robbery	1	2	8	8	12	12	6	8
Tax Offenses	1	4	0	3	1	2	4	1
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	0	2	1	3	0	0	0	10
Larceny	2	1	1	4	2	1	0	4
Racketeering/Extortion	4	0	0	1	0	7	2	1
Embezzlement	0	1	3	4	1	0	1	1
Forgery/Counterfeiting	0	0	3	2	2	2	1	1
Pornography/Prostitution	3	0	1	0	2	0	1	2
Administration of Justice	0	1	1	1	1	2	0	2
Money Laundering	0	0	1	2	0	1	1	3
Assault	0	0	3	1	0	1	1	1
Auto Theft	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	1	0	1	2	0	1	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	0
Bribery	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0
Arson	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sexual Abuse	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All offenses	150	124	139	125	126	143	89	131

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 Rhode Island by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	66	83	58	61	43	48	34	32
Firearms	23	26	48	26	25	9	16	7
Immigration	22	33	40	25	19	12	8	16
Fraud	18	20	15	5	26	22	12	18
Child Pornography	4	7	8	5	7	5	1	6
Robbery	11	12	2	3	5	2	3	3
Administration of Justice	1	6	3	8	5	2	1	2
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	1	4	4	2	8	4	2	1
Racketeering/Extortion	0	7	7	3	3	1	2	0
Sexual Abuse	0	0	0	1	1	2	6	10
Tax Offenses	5	2	2	2	4	1	2	0
Larceny	1	1	2	1	6	4	2	0
Money Laundering	1	3	2	2	4	2	0	2
Forgery/Counterfeiting	1	1	1	4	3	0	0	0
Bribery	2	0	1	2	3	1	0	0
Assault	1	1	2	1	2	1	0	0
Embezzlement	0	1	1	1	4	1	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	2	1	1	0	0	2	1	0
Prison Offenses	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0
Arson	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
Civil Rights Offenses	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Murder	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	159	212	197	152	173	120	90	99

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 Rhode Island by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	35	35%
Drug Trafficking	27	27%
Child Pornography	11	11%
Immigration	6	6%
Sex Abuse	5	5%
Firearms	3	3%
Administration of Justice	2	2%
Money Launder	2	2%
Prison Offenses	2	2%
Robbery	2	2%
Arson	1	1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	1%
Other	1	1%
Tax	1	1%

All 99 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 Rhode Island by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Share
Hispanic	48	49%
White+MENA	27	27%
Black	19	19%
Asian+NHPI	3	3%
AIAN	1	1%
Race unknown	1	1%

All 99 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 Rhode Island by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	56	57%
II	12	12%
III	12	12%
IV	3	3%
V	1	1%
VI	14	14%
Category not known	1	1%

All 99 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 Rhode Island against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	31	31%
Above the range	1	1%
Below the range, government-sponsored	32	32%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	34	34%
Not known or not comparable	1	1%

All 99 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 Rhode Island, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	141	106	35	75.2%	24.8%
FY2007	143	109	34	76.2%	23.8%
FY2008	143	90	53	62.9%	37.1%
FY2009	192	134	58	69.8%	30.2%
FY2010	217	146	71	67.3%	32.7%
FY2011	209	139	70	66.5%	33.5%
FY2012	165	107	58	64.8%	35.2%
FY2013	154	86	68	55.8%	44.2%
FY2014	135	68	67	50.4%	49.6%
FY2015	96	55	41	57.3%	42.7%
FY2016	111	58	53	52.3%	47.7%
FY2017	117	70	47	59.8%	40.2%
FY2018	160	89	71	55.6%	44.4%
FY2019	127	65	62	51.2%	48.8%
FY2020	134	55	79	41.0%	59.0%
FY2021	177	78	99	44.1%	55.9%
FY2022	94	45	49	47.9%	52.1%
FY2023	86	40	46	46.5%	53.5%
FY2024	116	55	61	47.4%	52.6%
FY2025	88	39	49	44.3%	55.7%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	117	82	35	70.1%	29.9%
FY2007	130	96	34	73.8%	26.2%
FY2008	133	80	53	60.2%	39.8%
FY2009	172	118	54	68.6%	31.4%
FY2010	186	118	68	63.4%	36.6%
FY2011	176	106	70	60.2%	39.8%
FY2012	138	80	58	58.0%	42.0%
FY2013	143	76	67	53.1%	46.9%
FY2014	122	55	67	45.1%	54.9%
FY2015	91	50	41	54.9%	45.1%
FY2016	101	49	52	48.5%	51.5%
FY2017	106	59	47	55.7%	44.3%
FY2018	149	78	71	52.3%	47.7%
FY2019	116	54	62	46.6%	53.4%
FY2020	127	48	79	37.8%	62.2%
FY2021	177	78	99	44.1%	55.9%
FY2022	92	44	48	47.8%	52.2%
FY2023	81	35	46	43.2%	56.8%
FY2024	112	51	61	45.5%	54.5%
FY2025	83	34	49	41.0%	59.0%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	85	39	46	45.9%	54.1%
FY2023	78	34	44	43.6%	56.4%
FY2024	100	39	61	39.0%	61.0%
FY2025	76	27	49	35.5%	64.5%

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