Eastern District of Oklahoma

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 259
Noncitizens, FY2025: 7%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 194
Detained, FY2025: 71.1%

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	95%247	247
Probation and alternatives	2%5	5
Probation only	3%7	7

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 60 months (mean 108) for the 247 sentenced to prison, 7 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	27%69	69
Drug Trafficking	22%58	58
Assault	9%24	24
Sex Abuse	7%19	19
Murder	7%17	17
Other	5%12	12
Child Pornography	4%11	11
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	4%10	10
Immigration	4%9	9
Manslaughter	4%9	9
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	3%7	7
Robbery	2%5	5
Arson	2%4	4
Administration of Justice	1%2	2
Money Launder	<1%1	1
Prison Offenses	<1%1	1
Stalking/Harassing	<1%1	1

All 259 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	35	38	41	18	56	35	53	58
Firearms	18	28	27	16	4	21	67	69
Sex Abuse	4	5	3	8	25	31	44	19
Assault	1	3	0	13	26	36	31	24
Murder	2	0	0	5	19	28	32	17
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	20	15	13	6	4	2	5	7
Manslaughter	0	0	0	2	9	14	17	9
Robbery	1	0	1	7	9	12	9	5
Other	1	1	0	2	3	7	14	12
Child Pornography	3	3	2	1	3	5	9	11
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	3	0	4	4	2	5	8	10
Arson	0	2	2	2	1	6	7	4
Prison Offenses	1	1	0	0	3	7	1	1
Immigration	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	9
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	6	2	3	1	0	0	0	0
Administration of Justice	0	3	2	1	0	0	3	2
Kidnapping	0	0	2	1	1	1	6	0
Money Launder	0	0	0	1	9	0	0	1
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	1	3	0	1	0
Stalking/Harassing	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	1
Tax	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0
Individual Rights	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Bribery/Corruption	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Drug Possession	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Food and Drug	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All offenses	96	101	105	89	179	215	311	259

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	93%240	240
Not a U.S. citizen	7%19	19
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

9 of the 259 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
AIAN, 1 placed by CrimeDB	44%114	114
White+MENA, 1 placed by CrimeDB	34%89	89
Hispanic	11%28	28
Black, 2 placed by CrimeDB	10%26	26
Asian+NHPI	<1%1	1
Race unknown	<1%1	1

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 259 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 4 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	41%105	105
II	12%30	30
III	10%25	25
IV	12%31	31
V	9%23	23
VI	12%32	32
Category not known	5%13	13

All 259 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	65%168	168
Above the range	5%13	13
Below the range, government-sponsored	13%33	33
Below the range, not government-sponsored	16%42	42
Not known or not comparable	1%3	3

All 259 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	194	138	56	71.1%	28.9%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	176	120	56	68.2%	31.8%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	174	118	56	67.8%	32.2%

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 Oklahoma, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	83	79	0	4	1
FY2003	81	77	4	0	0
FY2004	151	142	7	2	0
FY2005	99	88	10	1	2
FY2006	80	70	9	1	1
FY2007	95	81	10	4	2
FY2008	89	86	3	0	1
FY2009	98	91	7	0	2
FY2010	113	105	8	0	0
FY2011	104	95	9	0	5
FY2012	92	82	10	0	3
FY2013	116	108	8	0	4
FY2014	89	84	5	0	1
FY2015	99	96	3	0	1
FY2016	100	99	1	0	0
FY2017	107	104	3	0	0
FY2018	96	93	3	0	0
FY2019	101	91	10	0	0
FY2020	105	100	5	0	2
FY2021	89	87	2	0	0
FY2022	179	176	3	0	0
FY2023	215	213	2	0	0
FY2024	311	304	7	0	2
FY2025	259	240	19	0	9

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 Oklahoma, 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	83	57	4	8	12	0	2	75%	1
FY2003*	81	54	1	13	12	0	1	69%	0
FY2004	151	123	3	16	9	0	0	83%	1
FY2005*	99	90	2	3	4	0	0	93%	0
FY2006	80	60	2	7	11	0	0	78%	0
FY2007	95	76	1	7	7	4	0	81%	0
FY2008*	89	78	1	6	4	0	0	89%	0
FY2009	98	82	1	9	6	0	0	85%	0
FY2010*	113	84	1	13	14	1	0	75%	0
FY2011	104	78	2	6	18	0	0	77%	0
FY2012	92	71	2	10	9	0	0	79%	0
FY2013	116	88	2	11	15	0	0	78%	0
FY2014	89	65	3	7	14	0	0	76%	0
FY2015	99	77	2	8	12	0	0	80%	0
FY2016	100	79	2	9	10	0	0	81%	2
FY2017	107	92	0	3	12	0	0	86%	0
FY2018	96	84	1	5	6	0	0	89%	0
FY2019*	101	90	1	2	8	0	0	90%	0
FY2020	105	92	1	2	10	0	0	89%	1
FY2021	89	84	1	0	4	0	0	96%	1
FY2022	179	172	0	2	5	0	0	96%	5
FY2023	215	209	1	1	4	0	0	98%	12
FY2024*	311	302	5	0	4	0	0	99%	12
FY2025	259	247	0	5	7	0	0	95%	7

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 Oklahoma, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	52	24	81	69	39	60
FY2003*	53	37	80	75	57	55
FY2004	91	57	151	108	75	126
FY2005*	92	63	99	99	71	92
FY2006	79	59	78	101	84	60
FY2007	76	60	95	93	60	77
FY2008*	71	60	89	80	63	79
FY2009	68	48	98	80	60	83
FY2010*	68	40	113	90	63	84
FY2011	46	30	104	60	37	80
FY2012	51	41	92	63	55	73
FY2013	53	34	116	67	48	90
FY2014	67	37	89	87	63	68
FY2015	60	46	99	74	60	79
FY2016	65	33	100	80	48	81
FY2017	64	46	107	75	57	91
FY2018	69	46	96	78	51	85
FY2019*	74	58	101	82	60	91
FY2020	68	48	105	77	60	93
FY2021	89	60	89	93	60	85
FY2022	101	60	179	105	63	172
FY2023	134	87	215	137	87	210
FY2024*	123	63	311	124	66	307
FY2025	103	57	259	108	60	247

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 Oklahoma by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	23	29	58	31	29	35	17	26
Firearms	11	19	38	28	17	11	18	23
Fraud	11	9	13	7	7	8	14	10
Embezzlement	8	1	9	4	5	7	7	7
Larceny	4	5	8	3	5	4	2	3
Forgery/Counterfeiting	4	2	6	0	1	1	7	0
Pornography/Prostitution	1	0	1	5	1	0	7	6
Administration of Justice	2	5	3	2	2	1	1	2
Assault	0	1	0	5	5	3	0	3
Robbery	3	1	3	6	0	3	0	1
Sexual Abuse	7	3	1	1	0	0	0	3
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	3	1	2	2	1	2	3	1
Tax Offenses	1	1	2	0	2	2	3	1
Money Laundering	1	0	0	0	1	3	4	2
Racketeering/Extortion	0	0	1	0	0	7	2	0
Immigration	1	0	0	2	1	2	1	2
Auto Theft	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	1
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	2	1	0	1	2	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	1	0	0	0	1	4	0	0
Murder	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	3
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
Bribery	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
All offenses	83	81	151	99	80	95	89	98

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 Oklahoma by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	44	21	31	30	31	28	33	32
Firearms	27	21	23	28	16	18	29	35
Fraud	10	17	13	7	14	11	6	10
Embezzlement	8	13	5	2	3	6	7	7
Administration of Justice	2	6	7	6	6	7	4	2
Forgery/Counterfeiting	7	4	0	17	3	2	5	1
Larceny	4	4	2	3	4	4	2	7
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	1	5	0	5	2	6	3	6
Child Pornography	3	2	2	4	3	1	2	2
Immigration	0	5	3	4	1	1	0	0
Assault	0	2	1	1	3	1	3	1
Robbery	4	0	2	1	0	0	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	1	0	1	2	0	2	0	0
Racketeering/Extortion	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	0
Money Laundering	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	1
Tax Offenses	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	0
Arson	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
Bribery	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Antitrust Violations	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Prison Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Sexual Abuse	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
All offenses	113	104	92	116	89	99	100	107

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 Oklahoma by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Firearms	69	27%
Drug Trafficking	58	22%
Assault	24	9%
Sex Abuse	19	7%
Murder	17	7%
Other	12	5%
Child Pornography	11	4%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	10	4%
Immigration	9	4%
Manslaughter	9	4%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	7	3%
Robbery	5	2%
Arson	4	2%
Administration of Justice	2	1%
Money Launder	1	<1%
Prison Offenses	1	<1%
Stalking/Harassing	1	<1%

All 259 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 Oklahoma by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
AIAN	114	1	44%
White+MENA	89	1	34%
Hispanic	28	0	11%
Black	26	2	10%
Asian+NHPI	1	0	<1%
Race unknown	1	0	<1%

All 259 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 4 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 Oklahoma by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	105	41%
II	30	12%
III	25	10%
IV	31	12%
V	23	9%
VI	32	12%
Category not known	13	5%

All 259 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 Oklahoma against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	168	65%
Above the range	13	5%
Below the range, government-sponsored	33	13%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	42	16%
Not known or not comparable	3	1%

All 259 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 Oklahoma, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	79	38	41	48.1%	51.9%
FY2007	83	33	50	39.8%	60.2%
FY2008	81	39	42	48.1%	51.9%
FY2009	100	52	48	52.0%	48.0%
FY2010	71	28	43	39.4%	60.6%
FY2011	81	36	45	44.4%	55.6%
FY2012	101	42	59	41.6%	58.4%
FY2013	93	44	49	47.3%	52.7%
FY2014	63	31	32	49.2%	50.8%
FY2015	72	38	34	52.8%	47.2%
FY2016	102	73	29	71.6%	28.4%
FY2017	71	38	33	53.5%	46.5%
FY2018	135	99	36	73.3%	26.7%
FY2019	120	88	32	73.3%	26.7%
FY2020	126	101	25	80.2%	19.8%
FY2021	380	315	65	82.9%	17.1%
FY2022	199	136	63	68.3%	31.7%
FY2023	204	145	59	71.1%	28.9%
FY2024	167	103	64	61.7%	38.3%
FY2025	194	138	56	71.1%	28.9%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	79	38	41	48.1%	51.9%
FY2007	73	23	50	31.5%	68.5%
FY2008	81	39	42	48.1%	51.9%
FY2009	94	46	48	48.9%	51.1%
FY2010	70	28	42	40.0%	60.0%
FY2011	79	34	45	43.0%	57.0%
FY2012	100	41	59	41.0%	59.0%
FY2013	93	44	49	47.3%	52.7%
FY2014	63	31	32	49.2%	50.8%
FY2015	72	38	34	52.8%	47.2%
FY2016	102	73	29	71.6%	28.4%
FY2017	71	38	33	53.5%	46.5%
FY2018	134	98	36	73.1%	26.9%
FY2019	119	87	32	73.1%	26.9%
FY2020	125	100	25	80.0%	20.0%
FY2021	380	315	65	82.9%	17.1%
FY2022	199	136	63	68.3%	31.7%
FY2023	202	143	59	70.8%	29.2%
FY2024	164	100	64	61.0%	39.0%
FY2025	176	120	56	68.2%	31.8%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	198	135	63	68.2%	31.8%
FY2023	200	141	59	70.5%	29.5%
FY2024	163	99	64	60.7%	39.3%
FY2025	174	118	56	67.8%	32.2%

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