Eastern District of Texas

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 1,015
Noncitizens, FY2025: 24%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 658
Detained, FY2025: 72.0%

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	92%930	930
Prison and alternatives	<1%5	5
Probation and alternatives	1%7	7
Probation only	7%73	73

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 71 months (mean 96) for the 935 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
Drug Trafficking	46%471	471
Firearms	15%150	150
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	12%124	124
Immigration	8%76	76
Money Launder	6%58	58
Robbery	4%38	38
Bribery/Corruption	2%21	21
Child Pornography	2%16	16
Administration of Justice	1%13	13
Sex Abuse	1%12	12
Murder	1%9	9
Assault	1%7	7
Tax	1%5	5
Stalking/Harassing	<1%4	4
Prison Offenses	<1%3	3
Drug Possession	<1%2	2
Kidnapping	<1%2	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%2	2
Commercialized Vice	<1%1	1
Individual Rights	<1%1	1

All 1,015 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	350	341	313	306	311	332	554	471
Firearms	97	68	108	96	115	114	191	150
Immigration	66	130	85	91	74	53	82	76
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	90	48	42	63	61	72	135	124
Money Launder	22	9	19	22	24	38	52	58
Robbery	23	24	41	12	11	25	23	38
Administration of Justice	20	24	12	13	15	9	18	13
Child Pornography	14	17	16	16	12	10	12	16
Prison Offenses	15	28	16	8	3	4	2	3
Sex Abuse	13	4	8	9	7	9	12	12
Bribery/Corruption	0	2	0	2	9	3	10	21
Assault	6	4	3	1	11	8	3	7
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	4	4	8	0	3	7	5	0
Other	2	0	2	2	1	5	12	0
Tax	2	1	4	4	1	1	6	5
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	6	3	3	0	1	4	3	2
Stalking/Harassing	2	2	2	2	3	4	3	4
Commercialized Vice	6	2	4	3	1	1	2	1
Kidnapping	4	0	5	2	1	3	3	2
Murder	1	1	1	1	0	2	0	9
National Defense	2	3	0	1	3	2	3	0
Environmental	5	2	1	2	0	2	1	0
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	4	2	1	1	0
Arson	0	6	1	0	0	0	0	0
Drug Possession	1	0	0	0	3	0	1	2
Extortion/Racketeering	1	1	2	1	1	1	0	0
Individual Rights	1	0	2	0	0	3	0	1
Food and Drug	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0
Antitrust	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
All offenses	753	724	698	662	674	716	1,134	1,015

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	76%775	775
Not a U.S. citizen	24%240	240
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

76 of the 1,015 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Hispanic, 5 placed by CrimeDB	39%391	391
Black, 5 placed by CrimeDB	32%323	323
White+MENA, 4 placed by CrimeDB	27%274	274
Asian+NHPI	2%19	19
AIAN	<1%1	1
Race unknown	1%7	7

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 1,015 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 14 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	48%490	490
II	13%132	132
III	15%150	150
IV	7%67	67
V	9%86	86
VI	9%88	88
Category not known	<1%2	2

All 1,015 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	60%605	605
Above the range	6%60	60
Below the range, government-sponsored	24%248	248
Below the range, not government-sponsored	10%102	102

All 1,015 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	658	474	184	72.0%	28.0%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	613	429	184	70.0%	30.0%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	534	351	183	65.7%	34.3%

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 Texas, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	629	557	62	10	41
FY2003	640	541	93	6	55
FY2004	872	671	187	14	80
FY2005	709	576	126	7	75
FY2006	845	708	131	6	69
FY2007	979	794	182	3	84
FY2008	1,016	754	212	50	72
FY2009	927	734	188	5	77
FY2010	848	645	199	4	99
FY2011	1,010	752	249	9	101
FY2012	922	654	257	11	104
FY2013	943	649	291	3	89
FY2014	926	699	227	0	83
FY2015	1,031	768	262	1	60
FY2016	827	634	193	0	45
FY2017	795	586	205	4	51
FY2018	753	543	209	1	66
FY2019	724	473	250	1	130
FY2020	698	517	181	0	85
FY2021	662	485	177	0	91
FY2022	674	481	192	1	74
FY2023	716	520	194	2	53
FY2024	1,134	827	307	0	82
FY2025	1,015	775	240	0	76

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 Texas, 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	629	542	17	22	46	1	1	89%	1
FY2003*	640	568	16	19	32	3	2	92%	0
FY2004	872	785	25	21	34	5	2	93%	1
FY2005*	709	657	12	11	28	1	0	94%	2
FY2006	845	779	12	16	35	1	2	94%	3
FY2007	979	891	20	16	48	3	1	93%	2
FY2008*	1,016	905	18	23	69	1	0	91%	1
FY2009	927	849	6	21	50	1	0	92%	2
FY2010*	848	752	9	22	63	2	0	90%	2
FY2011	1,010	887	23	29	69	2	0	90%	2
FY2012	922	826	8	30	55	3	0	90%	4
FY2013	943	865	10	19	48	1	0	93%	3
FY2014	926	859	10	11	45	1	0	94%	6
FY2015	1,031	932	10	20	69	0	0	91%	5
FY2016	827	777	7	11	32	0	0	95%	6
FY2017	795	713	7	7	68	0	0	91%	1
FY2018	753	699	4	13	37	0	0	93%	1
FY2019*	724	687	6	6	23	2	0	96%	3
FY2020	698	654	9	13	22	0	0	95%	0
FY2021	662	629	8	4	20	1	0	96%	2
FY2022	674	635	2	12	25	0	0	95%	2
FY2023	716	684	1	1	30	0	0	96%	2
FY2024*	1,134	1,051	0	7	76	0	0	93%	3
FY2025	1,015	930	5	7	73	0	0	92%	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 Texas, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	63	46	628	70	57	559
FY2003*	56	37	638	61	46	584
FY2004	63	42	864	68	48	802
FY2005*	73	51	709	77	60	667
FY2006	71	57	843	75	60	791
FY2007	67	48	978	72	54	911
FY2008*	65	46	1,016	71	57	922
FY2009	73	53	927	79	60	853
FY2010*	64	46	848	72	57	758
FY2011	66	48	1,010	73	57	906
FY2012	65	46	922	72	50	833
FY2013	74	54	943	80	60	874
FY2014	77	57	926	82	60	866
FY2015	78	57	1,031	85	60	936
FY2016	78	60	827	82	60	780
FY2017	86	60	795	96	70	716
FY2018	88	63	753	94	70	703
FY2019*	85	60	724	88	60	693
FY2020	84	62	698	88	70	663
FY2021	88	60	662	91	63	637
FY2022	81	60	674	85	70	637
FY2023	90	60	716	94	66	685
FY2024*	79	60	1,134	85	63	1,051
FY2025	89	60	1,015	96	71	935

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 Texas by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	293	248	360	321	365	431	442	445
Firearms	58	98	135	116	183	169	129	127
Fraud	64	62	85	40	47	86	143	68
Immigration	41	55	80	75	69	84	72	77
Administration of Justice	21	17	27	23	19	29	42	25
Pornography/Prostitution	5	14	32	22	17	26	22	38
Larceny	6	25	16	15	19	31	27	23
Prison Offenses	21	26	34	19	15	4	18	21
Forgery/Counterfeiting	19	13	16	7	18	26	9	19
Drugs - Communication Facilities	24	15	19	2	15	15	8	4
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	12	4	9	9	10	16	21	14
Robbery	9	13	8	10	16	10	19	7
Racketeering/Extortion	19	8	13	9	8	5	7	11
Assault	7	13	8	15	12	10	9	5
Money Laundering	3	8	1	12	16	14	11	13
Embezzlement	8	3	5	3	8	2	9	5
Tax Offenses	3	8	4	6	1	10	2	9
Drugs - Simple Possession	3	3	9	1	1	2	2	2
Auto Theft	4	1	4	0	0	0	4	3
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	1	0	0	0	0	9	4
Bribery	2	0	1	1	1	0	3	4
Sexual Abuse	0	0	0	1	2	4	3	2
Civil Rights Offenses	3	0	0	2	1	0	2	0
Food and Drug Offenses	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	0
Murder	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	1
Arson	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0
All offenses	629	640	872	709	845	979	1,016	927

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 Texas by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	354	505	395	444	459	506	370	412
Firearms	122	114	137	131	116	84	85	91
Fraud	75	103	107	76	81	140	88	68
Immigration	99	101	104	89	83	60	45	51
Child Pornography	26	26	27	28	44	47	50	28
Administration of Justice	27	26	33	25	21	41	36	27
Money Laundering	19	20	16	31	16	13	27	15
Larceny	13	23	20	13	15	11	9	15
Prison Offenses	9	13	14	5	14	22	23	19
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	18	9	15	19	10	18	13	11
Robbery	13	14	6	16	8	14	25	9
Forgery/Counterfeiting	23	9	14	11	11	12	13	4
Drugs - Communication Facilities	5	4	3	21	15	9	8	6
Racketeering/Extortion	9	7	4	3	9	11	10	7
Tax Offenses	8	10	7	5	2	7	4	3
Assault	6	8	1	2	4	10	8	2
Sexual Abuse	1	1	5	6	6	12	5	4
Bribery	4	0	5	2	0	1	0	8
Embezzlement	5	2	2	1	3	2	0	4
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	1	3	3	3	4	2	1	2
Gambling/Lottery	1	2	0	4	2	2	0	6
Drugs - Simple Possession	2	3	2	3	1	0	1	0
Auto Theft	8	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	2	1	0	0	2	1	1
Civil Rights Offenses	0	2	1	0	1	1	0	0
Arson	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Antitrust Violations	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
All offenses	848	1,010	922	943	926	1,031	827	795

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 Texas by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	471	46%
Firearms	150	15%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	124	12%
Immigration	76	8%
Money Launder	58	6%
Robbery	38	4%
Bribery/Corruption	21	2%
Child Pornography	16	2%
Administration of Justice	13	1%
Sex Abuse	12	1%
Murder	9	1%
Assault	7	1%
Tax	5	1%
Stalking/Harassing	4	<1%
Prison Offenses	3	<1%
Drug Possession	2	<1%
Kidnapping	2	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	<1%
Commercialized Vice	1	<1%
Individual Rights	1	<1%

All 1,015 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 Texas by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Hispanic	391	5	39%
Black	323	5	32%
White+MENA	274	4	27%
Asian+NHPI	19	0	2%
AIAN	1	0	<1%
Race unknown	7	0	1%

All 1,015 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 14 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 Texas by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	490	48%
II	132	13%
III	150	15%
IV	67	7%
V	86	9%
VI	88	9%
Category not known	2	<1%

All 1,015 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 Texas against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	605	60%
Above the range	60	6%
Below the range, government-sponsored	248	24%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	102	10%

All 1,015 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 Texas, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	833	510	323	61.2%	38.8%
FY2007	960	622	338	64.8%	35.2%
FY2008	995	620	375	62.3%	37.7%
FY2009	947	574	373	60.6%	39.4%
FY2010	1,059	636	423	60.1%	39.9%
FY2011	968	594	374	61.4%	38.6%
FY2012	978	619	359	63.3%	36.7%
FY2013	850	569	281	66.9%	33.1%
FY2014	857	561	296	65.5%	34.5%
FY2015	658	429	229	65.2%	34.8%
FY2016	626	407	219	65.0%	35.0%
FY2017	553	378	175	68.4%	31.6%
FY2018	674	500	174	74.2%	25.8%
FY2019	741	557	184	75.2%	24.8%
FY2020	668	456	212	68.3%	31.7%
FY2021	996	666	330	66.9%	33.1%
FY2022	963	681	282	70.7%	29.3%
FY2023	834	550	284	65.9%	34.1%
FY2024	719	530	189	73.7%	26.3%
FY2025	658	474	184	72.0%	28.0%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	781	458	323	58.6%	41.4%
FY2007	911	573	338	62.9%	37.1%
FY2008	928	553	375	59.6%	40.4%
FY2009	886	513	373	57.9%	42.1%
FY2010	977	555	422	56.8%	43.2%
FY2011	889	515	374	57.9%	42.1%
FY2012	902	543	359	60.2%	39.8%
FY2013	775	494	281	63.7%	36.3%
FY2014	801	505	296	63.0%	37.0%
FY2015	616	387	229	62.8%	37.2%
FY2016	592	373	219	63.0%	37.0%
FY2017	493	318	175	64.5%	35.5%
FY2018	583	409	174	70.2%	29.8%
FY2019	658	474	184	72.0%	28.0%
FY2020	612	400	212	65.4%	34.6%
FY2021	925	595	330	64.3%	35.7%
FY2022	919	637	282	69.3%	30.7%
FY2023	782	500	282	63.9%	36.1%
FY2024	671	482	189	71.8%	28.2%
FY2025	613	429	184	70.0%	30.0%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	748	475	273	63.5%	36.5%
FY2023	665	385	280	57.9%	42.1%
FY2024	534	350	184	65.5%	34.5%
FY2025	534	351	183	65.7%	34.3%

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