Eastern District of Michigan

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 851
Noncitizens, FY2025: 28%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 852
Detained, FY2025: 65.1%

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	93%795	795
Prison and alternatives	2%21	21
Probation and alternatives	<1%4	4
Probation only	4%31	31

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 24 months (mean 51) for the 816 sentenced to prison, 1 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
Firearms	25%216	216
Immigration	25%211	211
Drug Trafficking	17%146	146
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	13%110	110
Robbery	4%35	35
Sex Abuse	3%28	28
Child Pornography	3%23	23
Assault	2%15	15
Bribery/Corruption	1%9	9
Kidnapping	1%9	9
Money Launder	1%9	9
Tax	1%8	8
Murder	1%7	7
Antitrust	1%6	6
Administration of Justice	1%5	5
Stalking/Harassing	1%5	5
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	<1%3	3
Drug Possession	<1%1	1
Environmental	<1%1	1
Individual Rights	<1%1	1
National Defense	<1%1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%1	1
Prison Offenses	<1%1	1

All 851 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	206	216	130	124	136	162	191	146
Firearms	118	121	91	150	218	212	158	216
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	153	149	77	57	148	118	90	110
Immigration	193	156	127	55	24	46	55	211
Sex Abuse	44	36	10	18	36	36	33	28
Robbery	42	45	18	16	22	25	22	35
Child Pornography	32	24	4	18	34	20	14	23
Money Launder	19	19	14	9	19	11	20	9
Assault	19	19	13	10	12	6	12	15
Bribery/Corruption	20	19	7	6	11	16	8	9
Administration of Justice	23	19	3	5	9	5	7	5
Murder	9	7	15	3	16	12	5	7
Tax	13	8	1	6	10	10	8	8
Stalking/Harassing	5	8	6	2	5	4	5	5
Burglary/Trespass	3	4	5	1	0	4	4	0
Prison Offenses	7	2	1	3	1	3	2	1
Kidnapping	4	1	3	1	1	0	0	9
Extortion/Racketeering	7	8	0	0	0	1	0	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	5	3	0	2	0	1	2	3
Other	3	3	3	0	4	1	1	0
Drug Possession	4	6	1	0	1	1	0	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	3	3	1	1	2	0	0	1
Antitrust	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	6
Environmental	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	1
Individual Rights	0	1	0	1	2	0	1	1
National Defense	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	1
Food and Drug	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0
Arson	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0
Commercialized Vice	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
All offenses	934	879	533	489	719	696	642	851

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%616	616
Not a U.S. citizen	28%235	235
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

211 of the 851 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black, 4 placed by CrimeDB	53%447	447
Hispanic, 1 placed by CrimeDB	27%226	226
White+MENA	17%143	143
Asian+NHPI, 1 placed by CrimeDB	2%20	20
AIAN	1%7	7
Race unknown	1%8	8

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 851 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 6 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	45%382	382
II	15%131	131
III	20%168	168
IV	7%58	58
V	6%54	54
VI	7%58	58

All 851 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	43%365	365
Above the range	1%11	11
Below the range, government-sponsored	8%68	68
Below the range, not government-sponsored	48%407	407

All 851 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	852	555	297	65.1%	34.9%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	626	329	297	52.6%	47.4%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	602	305	297	50.7%	49.3%

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 Michigan, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	770	685	76	9	34
FY2003	703	611	86	6	38
FY2004	779	676	95	8	47
FY2005	747	618	125	4	55
FY2006	793	660	124	9	59
FY2007	759	674	82	3	39
FY2008	737	635	97	5	35
FY2009	716	598	116	2	46
FY2010	750	625	122	3	45
FY2011	827	643	176	8	118
FY2012	908	690	208	10	142
FY2013	903	680	218	5	142
FY2014	960	790	169	1	117
FY2015	849	688	160	1	101
FY2016	901	754	147	0	95
FY2017	864	710	152	2	131
FY2018	934	711	221	2	193
FY2019	879	685	194	0	156
FY2020	533	375	158	0	127
FY2021	489	413	76	0	55
FY2022	719	681	38	0	24
FY2023	696	626	68	2	46
FY2024	642	566	75	1	55
FY2025	851	616	235	0	211

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 Michigan, 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	770	551	63	73	78	2	3	80%	4
FY2003*	703	534	29	62	74	3	1	80%	3
FY2004	779	573	33	75	96	1	1	78%	2
FY2005*	747	547	40	79	76	2	3	79%	2
FY2006	793	639	53	52	49	0	0	87%	0
FY2007	759	589	54	47	67	2	0	85%	1
FY2008*	737	611	39	41	43	2	1	88%	4
FY2009	716	594	43	29	47	2	1	89%	1
FY2010*	750	623	32	27	67	1	0	87%	2
FY2011	827	669	56	45	56	1	0	88%	7
FY2012	908	770	36	47	53	2	0	89%	4
FY2013	903	793	28	19	62	1	0	91%	1
FY2014	960	851	31	12	61	5	0	92%	0
FY2015	849	726	27	27	67	2	0	89%	8
FY2016	901	777	26	17	81	0	0	89%	1
FY2017	864	778	23	15	47	1	0	93%	0
FY2018	934	836	19	16	61	2	0	92%	0
FY2019*	879	814	14	5	45	1	0	94%	5
FY2020	533	488	9	10	25	1	0	93%	3
FY2021	489	460	6	5	18	0	0	95%	0
FY2022	719	637	16	9	55	2	0	91%	2
FY2023	696	647	12	7	29	1	0	95%	2
FY2024*	642	591	13	4	34	0	0	94%	1
FY2025	851	795	21	4	31	0	0	96%	1

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 Michigan, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	41	21	767	50	30	614
FY2003*	46	27	700	56	36	561
FY2004	48	27	778	61	37	605
FY2005*	47	26	743	58	37	586
FY2006	47	30	793	53	36	692
FY2007	50	28	759	58	37	641
FY2008*	65	40	737	74	48	645
FY2009	59	36	716	67	42	631
FY2010*	49	30	750	56	37	648
FY2011	51	25	827	57	32	718
FY2012	50	24	908	57	34	782
FY2013	54	30	903	60	35	801
FY2014	55	32	960	61	36	864
FY2015	56	29	848	65	37	736
FY2016	54	27	901	62	36	780
FY2017	62	33	864	69	38	773
FY2018	52	24	934	57	30	855
FY2019*	58	28	879	61	30	828
FY2020	56	27	533	60	30	497
FY2021	59	36	489	61	39	466
FY2022	60	36	719	66	40	653
FY2023	61	36	696	65	37	659
FY2024*	61	36	642	65	40	604
FY2025	49	24	851	51	24	816

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 Michigan by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	255	232	258	262	334	267	340	293
Fraud	148	90	114	119	129	157	98	105
Firearms	99	144	143	109	121	90	91	102
Immigration	34	38	47	55	59	39	35	46
Larceny	60	47	27	39	15	24	18	15
Robbery	29	25	23	31	23	17	16	9
Pornography/Prostitution	4	6	11	12	14	32	27	43
Forgery/Counterfeiting	23	16	21	12	21	12	14	12
Money Laundering	8	5	15	21	20	23	18	15
Tax Offenses	22	18	9	9	9	8	18	14
Embezzlement	23	22	21	10	8	7	6	5
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	11	7	17	11	8	16	13	5
Administration of Justice	7	11	17	15	4	17	6	5
Racketeering/Extortion	8	5	15	17	5	13	9	10
Drugs - Simple Possession	5	10	8	7	4	7	2	10
Drugs - Communication Facilities	7	8	4	3	2	5	4	2
Assault	6	7	6	1	2	1	6	4
Sexual Abuse	1	1	2	0	3	3	12	8
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	3	1	3	4	3	0	0	5
Gambling/Lottery	5	0	3	0	0	4	3	0
Prison Offenses	0	3	3	2	0	2	0	2
Arson	0	1	2	0	1	5	1	0
Auto Theft	2	4	2	1	0	0	0	1
Civil Rights Offenses	1	0	3	1	1	2	0	2
Food and Drug Offenses	2	0	3	2	0	3	0	0
Bribery	1	0	1	1	2	3	0	1
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
Antitrust Violations	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Offense type not known	3	1	1	2	0	0	0	0
All offenses	770	703	779	747	793	759	737	716

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 Michigan by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	233	242	244	196	209	220	191	179
Firearms	100	140	168	211	229	167	173	193
Fraud	180	111	129	145	162	138	150	121
Immigration	45	118	142	142	117	101	95	131
Child Pornography	42	38	32	46	47	50	44	67
Administration of Justice	11	9	21	29	30	18	29	20
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	17	19	19	17	20	24	21	14
Racketeering/Extortion	5	13	9	7	20	17	37	41
Larceny	14	15	24	19	14	10	24	12
Tax Offenses	20	15	10	9	13	13	18	15
Assault	6	13	10	12	17	17	20	14
Forgery/Counterfeiting	18	13	22	7	19	16	10	2
Robbery	7	11	11	13	12	15	9	17
Money Laundering	17	14	11	4	10	9	12	8
Bribery	11	6	9	7	5	10	16	5
Embezzlement	2	8	6	11	4	5	11	4
Sexual Abuse	4	4	2	5	6	4	11	12
Drugs - Communication Facilities	4	9	7	5	5	3	13	1
Drugs - Simple Possession	5	9	5	1	7	5	1	1
Antitrust Violations	0	0	10	4	7	3	0	0
Auto Theft	0	12	2	1	1	0	3	2
Prison Offenses	3	1	4	3	0	1	0	2
Gambling/Lottery	4	1	0	0	0	0	8	0
Murder	0	4	2	4	1	0	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	1	1	2	2	0	1	1	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	0	1	2	3	1	1	0
Arson	0	0	3	0	1	0	2	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	2
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
All offenses	750	827	908	903	960	849	901	864

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 Michigan by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Firearms	216	25%
Immigration	211	25%
Drug Trafficking	146	17%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	110	13%
Robbery	35	4%
Sex Abuse	28	3%
Child Pornography	23	3%
Assault	15	2%
Bribery/Corruption	9	1%
Kidnapping	9	1%
Money Launder	9	1%
Tax	8	1%
Murder	7	1%
Antitrust	6	1%
Administration of Justice	5	1%
Stalking/Harassing	5	1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	3	<1%
Drug Possession	1	<1%
Environmental	1	<1%
Individual Rights	1	<1%
National Defense	1	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	<1%
Prison Offenses	1	<1%

All 851 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 Michigan by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Black	447	4	53%
Hispanic	226	1	27%
White+MENA	143	0	17%
Asian+NHPI	20	1	2%
AIAN	7	0	1%
Race unknown	8	0	1%

All 851 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 6 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 Eastern District of Michigan by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	382	45%
II	131	15%
III	168	20%
IV	58	7%
V	54	6%
VI	58	7%

All 851 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 Michigan against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	365	43%
Above the range	11	1%
Below the range, government-sponsored	68	8%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	407	48%

All 851 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 Michigan, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	808	240	568	29.7%	70.3%
FY2007	1,028	252	776	24.5%	75.5%
FY2008	909	273	636	30.0%	70.0%
FY2009	1,040	240	800	23.1%	76.9%
FY2010	1,079	375	704	34.8%	65.2%
FY2011	1,187	434	753	36.6%	63.4%
FY2012	1,246	472	774	37.9%	62.1%
FY2013	1,221	456	765	37.3%	62.7%
FY2014	1,049	469	580	44.7%	55.3%
FY2015	956	430	526	45.0%	55.0%
FY2016	923	426	497	46.2%	53.8%
FY2017	889	428	461	48.1%	51.9%
FY2018	977	535	442	54.8%	45.2%
FY2019	902	463	439	51.3%	48.7%
FY2020	638	321	317	50.3%	49.7%
FY2021	784	343	441	43.8%	56.3%
FY2022	655	308	347	47.0%	53.0%
FY2023	692	332	360	48.0%	52.0%
FY2024	621	330	291	53.1%	46.9%
FY2025	852	555	297	65.1%	34.9%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	778	215	563	27.6%	72.4%
FY2007	1,008	237	771	23.5%	76.5%
FY2008	883	250	633	28.3%	71.7%
FY2009	1,007	208	799	20.7%	79.3%
FY2010	1,022	318	704	31.1%	68.9%
FY2011	1,060	311	749	29.3%	70.7%
FY2012	1,123	352	771	31.3%	68.7%
FY2013	1,099	339	760	30.8%	69.2%
FY2014	931	358	573	38.5%	61.5%
FY2015	867	343	524	39.6%	60.4%
FY2016	837	341	496	40.7%	59.3%
FY2017	764	304	460	39.8%	60.2%
FY2018	795	354	441	44.5%	55.5%
FY2019	747	310	437	41.5%	58.5%
FY2020	540	224	316	41.5%	58.5%
FY2021	735	297	438	40.4%	59.6%
FY2022	618	271	347	43.9%	56.1%
FY2023	637	282	355	44.3%	55.7%
FY2024	563	273	290	48.5%	51.5%
FY2025	626	329	297	52.6%	47.4%

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 Michigan, excluding illegal alien cases (Table H-14B)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	608	262	346	43.1%	56.9%
FY2023	625	272	353	43.5%	56.5%
FY2024	543	254	289	46.8%	53.2%
FY2025	602	305	297	50.7%	49.3%

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