Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 477
Noncitizens, FY2025: 20%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 571
Detained, FY2025: 69.2%

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	88%419	419
Prison and alternatives	3%12	12
Probation and alternatives	2%9	9
Probation only	8%37	37

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 52 months (mean 76) for the 431 sentenced to prison, 2 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
Drug Trafficking	20%95	95
Firearms	19%91	91
Robbery	14%65	65
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	13%64	64
Immigration	13%60	60
Tax	3%14	14
Sex Abuse	3%13	13
Child Pornography	3%12	12
Money Launder	3%12	12
Stalking/Harassing	1%6	6
Arson	1%5	5
Bribery/Corruption	1%5	5
Individual Rights	1%5	5
Murder	1%5	5
Administration of Justice	1%4	4
Assault	1%3	3
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1%3	3
Kidnapping	1%3	3
Environmental	<1%2	2
Extortion/Racketeering	<1%2	2
Food and Drug	<1%2	2
Prison Offenses	<1%2	2
Burglary/Trespass	<1%1	1
National Defense	<1%1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%1	1
Other	<1%1	1

All 477 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	168	179	156	128	164	131	123	95
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	124	111	101	100	104	103	77	64
Firearms	47	62	49	56	85	92	106	91
Immigration	86	82	67	34	19	21	31	60
Robbery	59	43	30	31	40	58	54	65
Sex Abuse	18	22	26	21	14	27	13	13
Tax	44	22	15	8	15	10	11	14
Child Pornography	23	23	12	21	16	15	6	12
Money Launder	33	25	7	12	6	6	15	12
Bribery/Corruption	9	21	7	10	7	14	14	5
Murder	3	0	1	0	2	18	7	5
Stalking/Harassing	8	3	1	2	7	2	5	6
Administration of Justice	5	4	2	5	4	4	0	4
Arson	0	1	1	4	3	7	7	5
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	2	5	9	4	0	3	2	3
Kidnapping	3	10	1	0	1	5	1	3
Assault	2	2	1	0	1	6	5	3
National Defense	1	2	1	3	1	0	4	1
Prison Offenses	0	2	3	2	4	0	0	2
Extortion/Racketeering	0	3	0	0	2	4	0	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	4	0	1	2	1	1	1	1
Other	1	2	0	1	2	1	3	1
Individual Rights	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	5
Environmental	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	1
Antitrust	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
Commercialized Vice	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Food and Drug	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Drug Possession	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
All offenses	640	627	493	446	501	529	488	477

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	80%381	381
Not a U.S. citizen	20%96	96
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

60 of the 477 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black	44%210	210
Hispanic	34%162	162
White+MENA	19%92	92
Asian+NHPI	2%10	10
Race unknown	1%3	3

All 477 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	50%239	239
II	12%58	58
III	18%84	84
IV	6%29	29
V	5%24	24
VI	9%42	42
Category not known	<1%1	1

All 477 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	41%197	197
Above the range	3%14	14
Below the range, government-sponsored	34%164	164
Below the range, not government-sponsored	21%101	101
Not known or not comparable	<1%1	1

All 477 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	571	395	176	69.2%	30.8%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	478	303	175	63.4%	36.6%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	437	267	170	61.1%	38.9%

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 Pennsylvania, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	976	783	177	16	57
FY2003	977	809	145	23	38
FY2004	956	755	154	47	64
FY2005	973	807	133	33	59
FY2006	864	733	121	10	53
FY2007	793	657	122	14	44
FY2008	752	623	119	10	65
FY2009	865	681	176	8	60
FY2010	936	741	187	8	86
FY2011	987	775	200	12	90
FY2012	826	662	157	7	57
FY2013	848	687	159	2	65
FY2014	772	642	130	0	62
FY2015	717	594	122	1	68
FY2016	585	474	111	0	46
FY2017	676	540	135	1	74
FY2018	640	475	165	0	86
FY2019	627	490	137	0	82
FY2020	493	373	119	1	67
FY2021	446	363	83	0	34
FY2022	501	432	69	0	19
FY2023	529	459	68	2	21
FY2024	488	423	65	0	31
FY2025	477	381	96	0	60

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 Pennsylvania, 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	976	740	33	90	106	2	5	80%	3
FY2003*	977	730	49	84	109	5	0	80%	4
FY2004	956	719	38	76	117	5	1	79%	4
FY2005*	973	735	38	72	121	3	4	80%	2
FY2006	864	700	42	52	65	3	2	86%	11
FY2007	793	610	50	60	69	4	0	83%	3
FY2008*	752	611	42	46	53	0	0	87%	4
FY2009	865	714	45	39	66	1	0	88%	7
FY2010*	936	797	49	43	46	1	0	90%	1
FY2011	987	827	65	35	59	1	0	90%	1
FY2012	826	693	41	35	54	3	0	89%	2
FY2013	848	711	55	26	56	0	0	90%	2
FY2014	772	611	35	35	91	0	0	84%	2
FY2015	717	569	43	35	69	1	0	85%	2
FY2016	585	463	32	33	57	0	0	85%	1
FY2017	676	527	61	31	50	7	0	87%	0
FY2018	640	546	33	22	39	0	0	90%	2
FY2019*	627	527	32	25	43	0	0	89%	5
FY2020	493	422	25	15	31	0	0	91%	1
FY2021	446	387	12	13	33	1	0	89%	0
FY2022	501	414	19	15	53	0	0	86%	0
FY2023	529	447	22	11	49	0	0	89%	4
FY2024*	488	416	23	6	41	2	0	90%	3
FY2025	477	419	12	9	37	0	0	90%	2

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 Pennsylvania, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	55	30	971	68	44	770
FY2003*	57	30	976	72	46	770
FY2004	58	30	955	74	46	746
FY2005*	60	30	970	75	48	765
FY2006	71	36	862	82	47	739
FY2007	64	36	793	76	46	655
FY2008*	68	36	752	80	48	640
FY2009	73	40	865	82	52	755
FY2010*	67	46	936	75	55	830
FY2011	74	41	987	83	54	870
FY2012	66	37	826	74	50	723
FY2013	64	32	848	73	42	737
FY2014	57	27	772	70	37	624
FY2015	57	30	717	68	41	595
FY2016	57	30	585	68	39	482
FY2017	53	24	676	65	43	537
FY2018	68	33	640	74	40	579
FY2019*	62	30	627	69	37	559
FY2020	61	29	493	67	36	447
FY2021	67	37	446	74	42	399
FY2022	60	37	501	69	48	433
FY2023	81	46	529	91	60	469
FY2024*	66	40	488	73	48	439
FY2025	69	42	477	76	52	431

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 Pennsylvania by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	357	344	331	240	279	241	230	266
Firearms	144	173	179	242	199	155	163	226
Fraud	163	197	165	183	155	162	136	128
Immigration	57	38	64	59	53	44	65	60
Robbery	39	34	37	48	31	39	23	31
Larceny	34	23	34	30	11	12	12	14
Racketeering/Extortion	29	33	21	19	27	19	12	9
Forgery/Counterfeiting	30	15	18	12	25	24	21	22
Tax Offenses	12	12	6	24	20	10	23	22
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	14	11	17	27	6	11	10	14
Pornography/Prostitution	4	6	2	19	9	12	14	29
Embezzlement	12	17	13	19	11	15	0	0
Money Laundering	9	13	19	5	7	9	12	12
Auto Theft	50	16	1	4	0	1	3	0
Administration of Justice	9	12	14	7	1	7	6	8
Bribery	1	10	12	6	8	2	2	2
Assault	4	3	5	6	1	8	3	8
Prison Offenses	1	1	1	0	5	8	7	3
Food and Drug Offenses	2	2	0	6	5	2	1	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	1	3	2	2	5	0	3
Sexual Abuse	0	1	0	3	0	6	2	3
Arson	0	2	2	2	3	0	1	2
Gambling/Lottery	5	1	2	4	0	0	0	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	1	3	1	2	0	1	2
National Defense Offenses	0	0	1	3	2	1	2	1
Murder	0	1	2	2	0	0	1	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	0
Antitrust Violations	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Offense type not known	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	0
All offenses	976	977	956	973	864	793	752	865

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 Pennsylvania by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	311	298	232	250	256	178	151	206
Fraud	129	191	182	193	189	159	166	155
Firearms	224	224	169	158	104	104	78	95
Immigration	86	90	57	65	62	68	46	74
Child Pornography	17	21	22	17	18	35	36	33
Robbery	36	26	15	19	16	13	15	16
Racketeering/Extortion	11	14	22	19	15	39	16	17
Forgery/Counterfeiting	27	28	35	26	14	7	4	7
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	19	25	12	13	23	21	13	19
Tax Offenses	21	11	14	25	11	17	10	11
Larceny	15	8	8	13	12	5	12	6
Administration of Justice	16	16	6	8	8	14	5	2
Money Laundering	10	6	14	10	13	7	9	5
Assault	4	11	9	6	6	4	2	6
Sexual Abuse	0	1	3	2	3	12	6	4
Embezzlement	3	4	3	1	1	4	4	8
Bribery	3	6	1	2	4	8	2	1
National Defense Offenses	0	1	2	8	5	3	0	1
Gambling/Lottery	0	1	1	2	7	3	1	1
Prison Offenses	2	0	3	2	2	4	2	1
Arson	0	1	2	2	0	7	1	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	0	2	1	2	2	0	4
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	1	2	0	0	5	1
Food and Drug Offenses	0	1	5	0	1	0	0	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	1	2	2	0	1	0	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	1
Murder	0	2	2	0	0	1	0	0
Antitrust Violations	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Auto Theft	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	936	987	826	848	772	717	585	676

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 Pennsylvania by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	95	20%
Firearms	91	19%
Robbery	65	14%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	64	13%
Immigration	60	13%
Tax	14	3%
Sex Abuse	13	3%
Child Pornography	12	3%
Money Launder	12	3%
Stalking/Harassing	6	1%
Arson	5	1%
Bribery/Corruption	5	1%
Individual Rights	5	1%
Murder	5	1%
Administration of Justice	4	1%
Assault	3	1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	3	1%
Kidnapping	3	1%
Environmental	2	<1%
Extortion/Racketeering	2	<1%
Food and Drug	2	<1%
Prison Offenses	2	<1%
Burglary/Trespass	1	<1%
National Defense	1	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	<1%
Other	1	<1%

All 477 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 Pennsylvania by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Share
Black	210	44%
Hispanic	162	34%
White+MENA	92	19%
Asian+NHPI	10	2%
Race unknown	3	1%

All 477 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 Pennsylvania by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	239	50%
II	58	12%
III	84	18%
IV	29	6%
V	24	5%
VI	42	9%
Category not known	1	<1%

All 477 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 Pennsylvania against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	197	41%
Above the range	14	3%
Below the range, government-sponsored	164	34%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	101	21%
Not known or not comparable	1	<1%

All 477 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 Pennsylvania, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	778	389	389	50.0%	50.0%
FY2007	929	465	464	50.1%	49.9%
FY2008	957	555	402	58.0%	42.0%
FY2009	939	546	393	58.1%	41.9%
FY2010	988	556	432	56.3%	43.7%
FY2011	1,046	532	514	50.9%	49.1%
FY2012	881	447	434	50.7%	49.3%
FY2013	746	398	348	53.4%	46.6%
FY2014	777	372	405	47.9%	52.1%
FY2015	678	334	344	49.3%	50.7%
FY2016	611	304	307	49.8%	50.2%
FY2017	661	366	295	55.4%	44.6%
FY2018	586	369	217	63.0%	37.0%
FY2019	807	484	323	60.0%	40.0%
FY2020	445	271	174	60.9%	39.1%
FY2021	521	278	243	53.4%	46.6%
FY2022	446	242	204	54.3%	45.7%
FY2023	502	324	178	64.5%	35.5%
FY2024	417	283	134	67.9%	32.1%
FY2025	571	395	176	69.2%	30.8%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	743	357	386	48.0%	52.0%
FY2007	896	433	463	48.3%	51.7%
FY2008	901	502	399	55.7%	44.3%
FY2009	874	481	393	55.0%	45.0%
FY2010	924	492	432	53.2%	46.8%
FY2011	977	463	514	47.4%	52.6%
FY2012	833	401	432	48.1%	51.9%
FY2013	688	340	348	49.4%	50.6%
FY2014	719	314	405	43.7%	56.3%
FY2015	628	284	344	45.2%	54.8%
FY2016	572	265	307	46.3%	53.7%
FY2017	576	285	291	49.5%	50.5%
FY2018	512	295	217	57.6%	42.4%
FY2019	738	415	323	56.2%	43.8%
FY2020	395	223	172	56.5%	43.5%
FY2021	495	252	243	50.9%	49.1%
FY2022	427	224	203	52.5%	47.5%
FY2023	475	298	177	62.7%	37.3%
FY2024	398	264	134	66.3%	33.7%
FY2025	478	303	175	63.4%	36.6%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	409	210	199	51.3%	48.7%
FY2023	458	283	175	61.8%	38.2%
FY2024	380	248	132	65.3%	34.7%
FY2025	437	267	170	61.1%	38.9%

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