Eastern District of Arkansas

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 475
Noncitizens, FY2025: 9%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 355
Detained, FY2025: 44.5%

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	87%413	413
Prison and alternatives	<1%2	2
Probation and alternatives	1%3	3
Probation only	12%57	57

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 63 months (mean 83) for the 415 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
Firearms	38%181	181
Drug Trafficking	34%160	160
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	10%46	46
Immigration	4%21	21
Child Pornography	3%14	14
Sex Abuse	3%13	13
Money Launder	2%8	8
Robbery	2%7	7
Administration of Justice	1%6	6
Commercialized Vice	1%3	3
Tax	1%3	3
Arson	<1%2	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%2	2
Assault	<1%1	1
Bribery/Corruption	<1%1	1
Environmental	<1%1	1
Extortion/Racketeering	<1%1	1
Kidnapping	<1%1	1
Manslaughter	<1%1	1
Other	<1%1	1
Prison Offenses	<1%1	1
Stalking/Harassing	<1%1	1

All 475 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	164	180	148	162	191	225	180	160
Firearms	72	95	156	164	192	195	228	181
Prison Offenses	85	136	60	125	67	8	7	1
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	32	37	33	36	31	42	30	46
Immigration	57	54	45	10	0	8	8	21
Child Pornography	8	7	9	6	14	15	19	14
Administration of Justice	8	14	6	13	7	8	12	6
Sex Abuse	5	8	6	6	9	16	6	13
Robbery	6	6	1	2	2	4	2	7
Bribery/Corruption	1	7	1	3	6	9	1	1
Money Launder	2	2	0	3	3	0	3	8
Assault	0	2	1	1	4	3	3	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	0	1	4	1	3	3	2
Kidnapping	0	0	0	1	7	4	1	1
Other	4	6	1	0	1	0	1	1
Burglary/Trespass	1	1	1	0	3	1	5	0
Tax	1	4	0	0	1	1	1	3
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	0	0	2	3	4	1	0	0
Individual Rights	1	4	1	2	1	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	1	2	3	2	0	0
Stalking/Harassing	0	0	1	2	2	1	1	1
Arson	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	2
Commercialized Vice	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	3
Extortion/Racketeering	1	0	0	0	1	1	2	1
Environmental	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1
National Defense	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
Drug Possession	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
All offenses	453	564	474	546	555	548	517	475

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	91%432	432
Not a U.S. citizen	9%43	43
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

21 of the 475 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black	57%273	273
White+MENA	29%136	136
Hispanic	13%61	61
AIAN	<1%2	2
Asian+NHPI	<1%2	2
Race unknown	<1%1	1

All 475 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	34%162	162
II	13%61	61
III	15%73	73
IV	6%28	28
V	8%37	37
VI	24%114	114

All 475 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	49%233	233
Above the range	10%49	49
Below the range, government-sponsored	13%62	62
Below the range, not government-sponsored	28%131	131

All 475 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	355	158	197	44.5%	55.5%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	336	140	196	41.7%	58.3%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	320	124	196	38.8%	61.3%

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 Eastern District of Arkansas, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	247	224	21	2	10
FY2003	239	223	13	3	7
FY2004	299	259	25	15	19
FY2005	308	258	24	26	22
FY2006	380	323	33	24	15
FY2007	366	300	46	20	12
FY2008	434	334	69	31	42
FY2009	416	315	95	6	44
FY2010	392	307	83	2	41
FY2011	325	217	107	1	55
FY2012	397	313	71	13	26
FY2013	413	328	83	2	22
FY2014	354	291	62	1	18
FY2015	353	292	58	3	25
FY2016	378	345	30	3	7
FY2017	432	394	36	2	9
FY2018	453	366	85	2	57
FY2019	564	463	100	1	54
FY2020	474	411	63	0	45
FY2021	546	518	28	0	10
FY2022	555	543	10	2	0
FY2023	548	523	25	0	8
FY2024	517	491	26	0	8
FY2025	475	432	43	0	21

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 Eastern District of Arkansas, 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	247	185	14	17	28	1	2	81%	0
FY2003*	239	167	7	31	34	0	0	73%	1
FY2004	299	227	13	24	34	1	0	80%	1
FY2005*	308	231	7	30	36	3	1	78%	0
FY2006	380	298	13	36	32	0	1	82%	3
FY2007	366	300	16	19	29	2	0	86%	1
FY2008*	434	345	18	35	35	1	0	84%	3
FY2009	416	346	13	17	36	4	0	86%	0
FY2010*	392	322	12	18	40	0	0	85%	1
FY2011	325	283	8	12	22	0	0	90%	1
FY2012	397	320	5	23	49	0	0	82%	0
FY2013	413	332	7	15	59	0	0	82%	1
FY2014	354	305	4	5	40	0	0	87%	0
FY2015	353	291	4	10	46	2	0	84%	1
FY2016	378	293	3	6	74	2	0	78%	0
FY2017	432	361	3	8	60	0	0	84%	0
FY2018	453	412	6	9	26	0	0	92%	0
FY2019*	564	513	6	7	38	0	0	92%	0
FY2020	474	427	2	4	41	0	0	91%	0
FY2021	546	491	5	5	45	0	0	91%	0
FY2022	555	496	4	8	47	0	0	90%	3
FY2023	548	479	4	5	60	0	0	88%	5
FY2024*	517	462	3	8	44	0	0	90%	0
FY2025	475	413	2	3	57	0	0	87%	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 Eastern District of Arkansas, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	46	24	245	56	37	199
FY2003*	47	24	239	64	37	173
FY2004	51	19	299	66	37	226
FY2005*	55	27	306	73	48	230
FY2006	55	30	377	70	48	290
FY2007	53	30	366	64	37	301
FY2008*	56	27	434	72	46	335
FY2009	52	36	416	63	48	345
FY2010*	55	36	392	65	44	326
FY2011	46	30	325	53	37	283
FY2012	49	27	397	60	37	319
FY2013	61	40	413	76	60	330
FY2014	57	36	354	67	51	298
FY2015	52	33	353	63	46	287
FY2016	54	36	378	71	51	286
FY2017	57	37	432	70	51	351
FY2018	51	27	453	56	33	418
FY2019*	46	24	564	50	30	519
FY2020	51	36	474	56	37	429
FY2021	56	36	546	61	42	496
FY2022	66	46	555	73	52	500
FY2023	77	57	548	87	60	483
FY2024*	76	60	517	84	60	465
FY2025	73	60	475	83	63	415

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 Eastern District of Arkansas by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	84	66	82	98	122	120	150	146
Fraud	63	43	51	40	56	48	69	49
Firearms	12	31	44	45	55	75	62	65
Immigration	10	7	19	22	15	12	42	44
Forgery/Counterfeiting	16	18	18	15	12	35	20	11
Administration of Justice	11	15	14	18	25	12	17	17
Robbery	12	13	17	9	16	14	14	14
Larceny	7	9	13	9	13	9	9	9
Pornography/Prostitution	4	3	6	10	10	8	9	23
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	4	5	8	9	12	3	5	10
Prison Offenses	2	4	2	5	10	7	4	5
Drugs - Communication Facilities	2	5	2	4	3	3	5	10
Embezzlement	1	5	6	5	7	3	5	1
Tax Offenses	5	2	4	5	2	1	0	3
Money Laundering	1	1	1	0	7	4	4	2
Racketeering/Extortion	1	4	4	2	4	0	2	0
Assault	0	0	2	1	3	3	4	1
Bribery	0	2	3	2	2	3	2	0
Civil Rights Offenses	8	1	0	1	2	0	2	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	2	3	0	5	1	1	1	1
Sexual Abuse	0	0	0	1	0	1	5	3
Drugs - Simple Possession	1	0	0	0	1	2	1	1
Auto Theft	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1
Arson	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Food and Drug Offenses	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	247	239	299	308	380	366	434	416

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 Eastern District of Arkansas by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	132	124	161	201	161	143	155	207
Firearms	53	30	39	52	49	55	47	66
Fraud	39	41	48	28	33	30	26	48
Immigration	41	55	26	22	18	25	7	9
Prison Offenses	14	8	35	21	29	20	29	33
Drugs - Communication Facilities	4	4	7	12	9	25	40	17
Administration of Justice	23	9	16	21	9	7	14	11
Child Pornography	20	13	13	13	14	12	14	9
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	8	8	5	6	3	6	11	14
Forgery/Counterfeiting	17	5	12	4	11	1	3	3
Larceny	8	8	6	6	5	7	7	4
Robbery	16	6	3	7	2	2	7	0
Racketeering/Extortion	0	1	9	4	0	4	3	2
Assault	0	3	3	6	1	2	3	2
Money Laundering	3	1	1	5	3	5	1	0
Embezzlement	5	1	1	3	1	2	2	2
Tax Offenses	4	1	5	0	1	1	2	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	2	4	1	0	0	0	2
Sexual Abuse	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	3
Bribery	0	3	1	0	0	0	3	0
Arson	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Manslaughter	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Murder	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	392	325	397	413	354	353	378	432

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 Eastern District of Arkansas by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Firearms	181	38%
Drug Trafficking	160	34%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	46	10%
Immigration	21	4%
Child Pornography	14	3%
Sex Abuse	13	3%
Money Launder	8	2%
Robbery	7	2%
Administration of Justice	6	1%
Commercialized Vice	3	1%
Tax	3	1%
Arson	2	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	<1%
Assault	1	<1%
Bribery/Corruption	1	<1%
Environmental	1	<1%
Extortion/Racketeering	1	<1%
Kidnapping	1	<1%
Manslaughter	1	<1%
Other	1	<1%
Prison Offenses	1	<1%
Stalking/Harassing	1	<1%

All 475 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 Eastern District of Arkansas by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Share
Black	273	57%
White+MENA	136	29%
Hispanic	61	13%
AIAN	2	<1%
Asian+NHPI	2	<1%
Race unknown	1	<1%

All 475 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 Eastern District of Arkansas by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	162	34%
II	61	13%
III	73	15%
IV	28	6%
V	37	8%
VI	114	24%

All 475 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 Eastern District of Arkansas against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	233	49%
Above the range	49	10%
Below the range, government-sponsored	62	13%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	131	28%

All 475 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 Eastern District of Arkansas, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	471	167	304	35.5%	64.5%
FY2007	398	157	241	39.4%	60.6%
FY2008	394	172	222	43.7%	56.3%
FY2009	327	144	183	44.0%	56.0%
FY2010	329	112	217	34.0%	66.0%
FY2011	337	132	205	39.2%	60.8%
FY2012	464	194	270	41.8%	58.2%
FY2013	364	153	211	42.0%	58.0%
FY2014	324	140	184	43.2%	56.8%
FY2015	453	150	303	33.1%	66.9%
FY2016	298	118	180	39.6%	60.4%
FY2017	370	180	190	48.6%	51.4%
FY2018	500	222	278	44.4%	55.6%
FY2019	533	262	271	49.2%	50.8%
FY2020	513	223	290	43.5%	56.5%
FY2021	402	164	238	40.8%	59.2%
FY2022	409	153	256	37.4%	62.6%
FY2023	419	162	257	38.7%	61.3%
FY2024	339	141	198	41.6%	58.4%
FY2025	355	158	197	44.5%	55.5%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	459	155	304	33.8%	66.2%
FY2007	387	146	241	37.7%	62.3%
FY2008	365	143	222	39.2%	60.8%
FY2009	280	98	182	35.0%	65.0%
FY2010	297	80	217	26.9%	73.1%
FY2011	296	91	205	30.7%	69.3%
FY2012	443	173	270	39.1%	60.9%
FY2013	345	134	211	38.8%	61.2%
FY2014	309	125	184	40.5%	59.5%
FY2015	435	133	302	30.6%	69.4%
FY2016	294	114	180	38.8%	61.2%
FY2017	352	162	190	46.0%	54.0%
FY2018	448	170	278	37.9%	62.1%
FY2019	473	202	271	42.7%	57.3%
FY2020	487	197	290	40.5%	59.5%
FY2021	402	164	238	40.8%	59.2%
FY2022	406	150	256	36.9%	63.1%
FY2023	416	159	257	38.2%	61.8%
FY2024	333	135	198	40.5%	59.5%
FY2025	336	140	196	41.7%	58.3%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	396	141	255	35.6%	64.4%
FY2023	409	152	257	37.2%	62.8%
FY2024	323	127	196	39.3%	60.7%
FY2025	320	124	196	38.8%	61.3%

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