Eastern District of New York

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 604
Noncitizens, FY2025: 26%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 495
Detained, FY2025: 49.9%

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	82%495	495
Prison and alternatives	2%14	14
Probation and alternatives	2%11	11
Probation only	14%84	84

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 36 months (mean 72) for the 509 sentenced to prison, 3 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
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	27%165	165
Drug Trafficking	22%131	131
Firearms	8%49	49
Robbery	7%43	43
Murder	6%33	33
Money Launder	5%31	31
Sex Abuse	3%18	18
Assault	3%15	15
Immigration	3%15	15
Child Pornography	2%14	14
Tax	2%11	11
Environmental	2%10	10
Stalking/Harassing	2%10	10
Bribery/Corruption	1%8	8
Kidnapping	1%8	8
National Defense	1%8	8
Prison Offenses	1%8	8
Commercialized Vice	1%7	7
Extortion/Racketeering	1%6	6
Arson	1%3	3
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1%3	3
Administration of Justice	<1%2	2
Individual Rights	<1%2	2
Burglary/Trespass	<1%1	1
Drug Possession	<1%1	1
Food and Drug	<1%1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%1	1

All 604 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	209	189	128	132	177	194	201	131
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	106	81	55	86	119	160	130	165
Firearms	51	52	36	55	81	75	65	49
Robbery	51	57	17	28	42	62	48	43
Immigration	64	63	47	43	36	27	36	15
Money Launder	38	22	13	28	29	27	52	31
Murder	17	19	11	17	15	30	25	33
Tax	25	23	13	14	27	11	22	11
Child Pornography	15	21	4	9	30	20	19	14
Assault	9	14	5	15	16	17	35	15
Bribery/Corruption	12	10	4	17	27	19	26	8
Sex Abuse	10	15	0	4	17	19	18	18
Extortion/Racketeering	17	13	7	14	15	8	17	6
Administration of Justice	1	8	3	9	10	13	7	2
National Defense	12	2	3	2	12	4	2	8
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	7	4	3	8	7	2	7	3
Environmental	5	4	1	1	4	1	5	10
Stalking/Harassing	0	4	1	5	7	2	2	10
Kidnapping	0	9	0	3	6	3	0	8
Prison Offenses	6	1	1	1	1	2	2	8
Commercialized Vice	1	1	1	1	3	2	0	7
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	1	2	3	2	1	4	1
Arson	1	2	1	0	3	5	0	3
Individual Rights	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	2
Other	1	3	0	0	3	1	0	0
Food and Drug	0	1	0	1	1	2	1	1
Burglary/Trespass	0	1	2	0	0	0	2	1
Drug Possession	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1
All offenses	663	622	360	498	693	709	727	604

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%445	445
Not a U.S. citizen	26%158	158
Citizenship not known	<1%1	1

15 of the 604 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black, 1 placed by CrimeDB	34%204	204
Hispanic, 1 placed by CrimeDB	31%187	187
White+MENA	24%145	145
Asian+NHPI	10%59	59
AIAN	<1%1	1
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 604 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 2 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	62%372	372
II	13%80	80
III	9%57	57
IV	5%30	30
V	4%21	21
VI	7%43	43
Category not known	<1%1	1

All 604 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	23%140	140
Above the range	2%12	12
Below the range, government-sponsored	32%194	194
Below the range, not government-sponsored	43%258	258

All 604 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	495	247	248	49.9%	50.1%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	465	224	241	48.2%	51.8%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	412	177	235	43.0%	57.0%

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 New York, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	1,723	887	779	57	118
FY2003	1,867	1,073	758	36	123
FY2004	1,444	804	623	17	113
FY2005	1,285	735	545	5	95
FY2006	1,104	645	452	7	83
FY2007	1,043	617	419	7	76
FY2008	1,246	743	494	9	116
FY2009	1,213	709	496	8	123
FY2010	1,176	702	470	4	157
FY2011	1,150	641	504	5	217
FY2012	965	583	379	3	132
FY2013	903	579	324	0	102
FY2014	971	606	361	4	116
FY2015	795	502	292	1	89
FY2016	796	494	301	1	78
FY2017	739	493	244	2	54
FY2018	663	444	219	0	64
FY2019	622	417	201	4	63
FY2020	360	234	126	0	47
FY2021	498	353	144	1	43
FY2022	693	523	170	0	36
FY2023	709	560	148	1	27
FY2024	727	548	177	2	36
FY2025	604	445	158	1	15

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 New York, 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	1,723	1,368	42	94	210	6	3	82%	5
FY2003*	1,867	1,443	44	109	250	14	7	80%	12
FY2004	1,444	1,101	46	83	213	1	0	79%	5
FY2005*	1,285	1,013	32	68	171	0	1	81%	9
FY2006	1,104	864	32	53	150	5	0	81%	4
FY2007	1,043	828	29	46	139	1	0	82%	6
FY2008*	1,246	1,043	34	53	116	0	0	86%	10
FY2009	1,213	970	37	51	153	2	0	83%	8
FY2010*	1,176	939	39	52	142	4	0	83%	6
FY2011	1,150	930	37	42	139	2	0	84%	7
FY2012	965	770	43	48	104	0	0	84%	1
FY2013	903	724	49	33	95	2	0	86%	4
FY2014	971	757	52	34	127	1	0	83%	7
FY2015	795	605	49	30	109	2	0	82%	7
FY2016	796	606	28	24	137	1	0	80%	5
FY2017	739	573	35	22	109	0	0	82%	6
FY2018	663	541	35	13	74	0	0	87%	2
FY2019*	622	510	29	17	65	1	0	87%	1
FY2020	360	291	22	10	36	1	0	87%	2
FY2021	498	397	26	6	69	0	0	85%	3
FY2022	693	568	19	12	94	0	0	85%	2
FY2023	709	573	13	11	111	1	0	83%	4
FY2024*	727	611	11	14	86	5	0	86%	8
FY2025	604	495	14	11	84	0	0	84%	3

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 New York, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	35	24	1,721	42	30	1,405
FY2003*	34	24	1,861	42	30	1,480
FY2004	35	24	1,444	44	30	1,141
FY2005*	43	24	1,285	52	30	1,037
FY2006	45	24	1,104	55	33	890
FY2007	43	27	1,043	53	36	847
FY2008*	46	29	1,246	54	36	1,049
FY2009	41	24	1,213	51	31	958
FY2010*	39	18	1,176	50	30	905
FY2011	36	18	1,150	45	24	900
FY2012	36	20	965	45	27	762
FY2013	41	18	903	52	30	700
FY2014	42	16	971	54	24	740
FY2015	43	13	795	57	27	591
FY2016	39	12	796	58	30	528
FY2017	43	16	739	59	30	533
FY2018	42	18	663	47	24	576
FY2019*	50	24	622	57	36	539
FY2020	33	12	360	37	18	313
FY2021	39	12	498	45	18	423
FY2022	48	19	693	56	27	587
FY2023	52	21	709	62	33	586
FY2024*	55	21	727	64	33	622
FY2025	61	24	604	72	36	509

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 New York by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	840	790	652	564	504	439	561	538
Fraud	251	319	226	179	159	173	135	167
Immigration	118	123	113	95	83	76	116	123
Firearms	66	116	94	108	77	78	102	94
Racketeering/Extortion	110	184	88	71	56	51	89	75
Money Laundering	57	56	62	66	50	67	79	51
Larceny	31	40	40	21	19	9	11	13
Forgery/Counterfeiting	42	21	26	22	26	17	12	11
Tax Offenses	24	23	36	24	17	21	8	15
Administration of Justice	18	25	13	18	24	24	18	13
Pornography/Prostitution	15	21	19	18	17	15	24	20
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	18	17	11	22	17	7	13	23
Robbery	11	21	5	15	7	13	9	9
Gambling/Lottery	9	2	8	11	9	10	20	10
Bribery	9	19	11	15	2	5	11	6
Embezzlement	10	12	15	5	5	6	6	3
Drugs - Communication Facilities	15	14	6	4	6	5	4	2
Assault	8	10	1	4	2	2	2	5
Murder	3	3	0	8	7	4	5	2
Prison Offenses	1	2	3	5	2	4	5	5
Auto Theft	4	2	1	4	0	6	2	2
Drugs - Simple Possession	3	3	1	0	0	2	3	9
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	4	3	1	4	1	1	6
Food and Drug Offenses	6	3	2	0	0	0	0	5
Sexual Abuse	1	2	3	0	3	3	2	2
Arson	2	3	2	2	3	1	0	1
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	2	3	1	1	0	1	2	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	1	1	0	2	1	2	2
Antitrust Violations	0	3	0	0	0	1	4	0
National Defense Offenses	1	0	1	2	0	1	0	1
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	48	24	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	1,723	1,867	1,444	1,285	1,104	1,043	1,246	1,213

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 New York by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	499	431	409	410	398	327	278	266
Fraud	185	196	154	113	128	120	122	133
Immigration	157	217	132	102	116	89	78	54
Firearms	89	70	51	66	67	59	80	100
Racketeering/Extortion	29	47	70	47	46	45	36	43
Money Laundering	40	38	17	23	49	21	38	31
Tax Offenses	26	28	20	29	39	22	35	24
Child Pornography	20	18	20	26	22	35	30	15
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	30	22	13	17	8	15	13	7
Administration of Justice	24	19	12	12	14	5	10	11
Larceny	9	13	3	5	12	5	21	5
Forgery/Counterfeiting	16	5	10	10	5	5	4	7
Bribery	5	11	19	5	6	3	4	2
Embezzlement	5	1	4	3	13	4	7	4
Gambling/Lottery	0	2	8	6	5	5	8	6
Sexual Abuse	4	3	2	1	9	5	8	7
National Defense Offenses	1	3	3	5	5	5	6	8
Prison Offenses	4	9	6	3	6	2	3	1
Robbery	11	1	2	7	5	2	3	3
Murder	2	1	1	3	3	8	6	5
Assault	3	3	3	3	4	4	2	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	3	4	2	1	3	2	1	1
Drugs - Simple Possession	4	1	1	2	4	1	2	1
Food and Drug Offenses	2	1	0	1	1	3	0	2
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	4	2	0	0	1	0	1
Auto Theft	3	1	0	0	1	0	1	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	3	0	0	2	0	1	0	0
Arson	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	1
Antitrust Violations	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
All offenses	1,176	1,150	965	903	971	795	796	739

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 New York by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	165	27%
Drug Trafficking	131	22%
Firearms	49	8%
Robbery	43	7%
Murder	33	6%
Money Launder	31	5%
Sex Abuse	18	3%
Assault	15	3%
Immigration	15	3%
Child Pornography	14	2%
Tax	11	2%
Environmental	10	2%
Stalking/Harassing	10	2%
Bribery/Corruption	8	1%
Kidnapping	8	1%
National Defense	8	1%
Prison Offenses	8	1%
Commercialized Vice	7	1%
Extortion/Racketeering	6	1%
Arson	3	1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	3	1%
Administration of Justice	2	<1%
Individual Rights	2	<1%
Burglary/Trespass	1	<1%
Drug Possession	1	<1%
Food and Drug	1	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	<1%

All 604 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 New York by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Black	204	1	34%
Hispanic	187	1	31%
White+MENA	145	0	24%
Asian+NHPI	59	0	10%
AIAN	1	0	<1%
Race unknown	8	0	1%

All 604 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 2 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 New York by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	372	62%
II	80	13%
III	57	9%
IV	30	5%
V	21	4%
VI	43	7%
Category not known	1	<1%

All 604 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 New York against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	140	23%
Above the range	12	2%
Below the range, government-sponsored	194	32%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	258	43%

All 604 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 New York, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	1,229	624	605	50.8%	49.2%
FY2007	1,394	689	705	49.4%	50.6%
FY2008	1,230	595	635	48.4%	51.6%
FY2009	1,282	607	675	47.3%	52.7%
FY2010	1,311	736	575	56.1%	43.9%
FY2011	1,365	739	626	54.1%	45.9%
FY2012	1,069	521	548	48.7%	51.3%
FY2013	906	438	468	48.3%	51.7%
FY2014	802	376	426	46.9%	53.1%
FY2015	773	373	400	48.3%	51.7%
FY2016	804	389	415	48.4%	51.6%
FY2017	781	417	364	53.4%	46.6%
FY2018	779	387	392	49.7%	50.3%
FY2019	719	340	379	47.3%	52.7%
FY2020	612	263	349	43.0%	57.0%
FY2021	761	313	448	41.1%	58.9%
FY2022	664	262	402	39.5%	60.5%
FY2023	537	237	300	44.1%	55.9%
FY2024	560	232	328	41.4%	58.6%
FY2025	495	247	248	49.9%	50.1%

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 New York, excluding immigration cases (Table H-14A)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	1,178	576	602	48.9%	51.1%
FY2007	1,320	618	702	46.8%	53.2%
FY2008	1,180	547	633	46.4%	53.6%
FY2009	1,181	507	674	42.9%	57.1%
FY2010	1,169	596	573	51.0%	49.0%
FY2011	1,228	602	626	49.0%	51.0%
FY2012	1,009	461	548	45.7%	54.3%
FY2013	843	375	468	44.5%	55.5%
FY2014	739	313	426	42.4%	57.6%
FY2015	723	325	398	45.0%	55.0%
FY2016	757	342	415	45.2%	54.8%
FY2017	732	368	364	50.3%	49.7%
FY2018	716	331	385	46.2%	53.8%
FY2019	660	289	371	43.8%	56.2%
FY2020	578	233	345	40.3%	59.7%
FY2021	721	279	442	38.7%	61.3%
FY2022	645	249	396	38.6%	61.4%
FY2023	503	210	293	41.7%	58.3%
FY2024	540	218	322	40.4%	59.6%
FY2025	465	224	241	48.2%	51.8%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	592	209	383	35.3%	64.7%
FY2023	448	171	277	38.2%	61.8%
FY2024	494	181	313	36.6%	63.4%
FY2025	412	177	235	43.0%	57.0%

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