Eastern District of Wisconsin

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 302
Noncitizens, FY2025: 9%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 278
Detained, FY2025: 40.6%

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	85%256	256
Prison and alternatives	1%2	2
Probation and alternatives	2%5	5
Probation only	13%39	39

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 48 months (mean 58) for the 258 sentenced to prison; 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	30%91	91
Firearms	28%85	85
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	11%33	33
Robbery	9%27	27
Money Launder	3%10	10
Prison Offenses	3%9	9
Sex Abuse	3%9	9
Child Pornography	3%8	8
Immigration	2%7	7
National Defense	2%6	6
Bribery/Corruption	1%4	4
Assault	1%3	3
Tax	1%3	3
Stalking/Harassing	1%2	2
Administration of Justice	<1%1	1
Drug Possession	<1%1	1
Manslaughter	<1%1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%1	1
Other	<1%1	1

All 302 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	62	92	91	119	149	120	105	91
Firearms	45	40	45	39	64	87	64	85
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	49	35	38	28	16	19	34	33
Robbery	48	34	32	19	27	36	20	27
Sex Abuse	11	5	8	13	15	8	12	9
Child Pornography	6	8	4	12	17	7	18	8
Immigration	11	17	19	4	8	7	3	7
Money Launder	3	2	1	3	4	9	12	10
Tax	3	11	4	1	6	5	4	3
Administration of Justice	4	5	7	5	5	4	3	1
Assault	3	1	4	4	11	4	3	3
Arson	2	1	4	3	5	4	0	0
National Defense	0	3	2	0	0	1	2	6
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	4	1	1	1	2	3	1
Prison Offenses	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	9
Other	1	2	0	2	2	2	1	1
Stalking/Harassing	0	2	0	1	2	4	0	2
Bribery/Corruption	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	4
Commercialized Vice	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0
Drug Possession	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	1
Extortion/Racketeering	1	0	3	1	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	1
Burglary/Trespass	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0
Environmental	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Food and Drug	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Individual Rights	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
Murder	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	252	269	265	263	337	328	286	302

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	91%276	276
Not a U.S. citizen	9%26	26
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

7 of the 302 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black, 7 placed by CrimeDB	59%178	178
Hispanic	19%56	56
White+MENA	17%51	51
AIAN	4%12	12
Asian+NHPI	1%2	2
Race unknown	1%3	3

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 302 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 7 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	37%111	111
II	16%49	49
III	16%48	48
IV	8%25	25
V	10%31	31
VI	13%38	38

All 302 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	19%57	57
Above the range	2%7	7
Below the range, government-sponsored	43%131	131
Below the range, not government-sponsored	35%107	107

All 302 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	278	113	165	40.6%	59.4%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	271	107	164	39.5%	60.5%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	251	88	163	35.1%	64.9%

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 Wisconsin, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	284	232	47	5	4
FY2003	286	231	53	2	27
FY2004	373	309	62	2	30
FY2005	345	270	72	3	31
FY2006	328	292	35	1	13
FY2007	406	343	62	1	20
FY2008	492	432	58	2	27
FY2009	468	411	50	7	23
FY2010	472	432	38	2	21
FY2011	501	444	55	2	22
FY2012	500	432	63	5	16
FY2013	435	387	47	1	11
FY2014	350	322	26	2	9
FY2015	257	234	17	6	5
FY2016	301	282	17	2	6
FY2017	304	292	12	0	5
FY2018	252	224	26	2	11
FY2019	269	236	30	3	17
FY2020	265	225	40	0	19
FY2021	263	241	21	1	4
FY2022	337	313	23	1	8
FY2023	328	303	24	1	7
FY2024	286	261	23	2	3
FY2025	302	276	26	0	7

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 Wisconsin, 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	284	219	27	19	15	2	2	87%	3
FY2003*	286	229	18	22	17	0	0	86%	3
FY2004	373	285	20	27	39	2	0	82%	1
FY2005*	345	268	30	31	13	3	0	86%	1
FY2006	328	269	12	31	16	0	0	86%	4
FY2007	406	331	10	42	21	2	0	84%	1
FY2008*	492	373	19	40	60	0	0	80%	1
FY2009	468	381	16	35	33	3	0	85%	1
FY2010*	472	366	14	38	51	3	0	81%	0
FY2011	501	394	13	45	48	1	0	81%	1
FY2012	500	376	31	36	57	0	0	81%	0
FY2013	435	336	23	33	43	0	0	83%	0
FY2014	350	277	15	23	34	1	0	83%	1
FY2015	257	186	17	12	38	3	1	79%	0
FY2016	301	235	8	24	32	2	0	81%	0
FY2017	304	233	9	17	44	1	0	80%	1
FY2018	252	204	9	8	26	5	0	85%	0
FY2019*	269	218	5	12	32	2	0	83%	1
FY2020	265	213	12	7	31	2	0	85%	0
FY2021	263	218	10	8	27	0	0	87%	0
FY2022	337	293	3	8	32	1	0	88%	0
FY2023	328	285	4	7	31	1	0	88%	0
FY2024*	286	255	1	1	29	0	0	90%	0
FY2025	302	256	2	5	39	0	0	85%	0

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 Wisconsin, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	70	46	282	79	53	246
FY2003*	75	46	286	87	50	245
FY2004	59	46	373	72	51	305
FY2005*	58	37	345	67	46	294
FY2006	72	48	328	84	60	280
FY2007	73	48	406	86	60	341
FY2008*	55	33	492	69	57	390
FY2009	54	37	468	64	48	392
FY2010*	49	36	470	61	46	374
FY2011	54	36	501	67	57	403
FY2012	49	30	500	62	48	391
FY2013	39	24	435	50	36	339
FY2014	54	32	350	68	45	275
FY2015	46	22	257	59	38	195
FY2016	47	30	301	63	47	226
FY2017	45	25	304	61	48	227
FY2018	63	36	252	74	50	213
FY2019*	53	34	269	64	52	223
FY2020	52	28	265	62	40	225
FY2021	49	24	263	57	43	228
FY2022	60	46	337	68	60	296
FY2023	51	35	328	58	42	289
FY2024*	65	48	286	73	60	256
FY2025	49	36	302	58	48	258

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 Wisconsin by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	128	93	123	122	133	188	180	183
Firearms	49	43	56	60	62	72	98	80
Fraud	33	45	64	55	51	54	51	50
Immigration	4	27	30	31	13	20	27	23
Drugs - Communication Facilities	5	4	9	11	10	8	4	26
Larceny	16	11	7	6	6	5	16	7
Money Laundering	2	3	8	11	8	13	11	1
Racketeering/Extortion	2	7	4	1	1	3	7	30
Robbery	4	12	11	4	2	3	6	12
Pornography/Prostitution	3	0	5	10	6	6	16	7
Administration of Justice	2	5	5	5	5	4	12	12
Forgery/Counterfeiting	10	8	4	1	2	5	11	4
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	3	3	8	3	1	6	14	6
Tax Offenses	6	4	3	6	6	7	5	2
Assault	2	5	10	1	3	1	6	9
Embezzlement	4	4	6	4	3	2	7	2
Sexual Abuse	1	1	3	4	2	4	9	5
Drugs - Simple Possession	2	6	7	1	1	1	2	1
Civil Rights Offenses	3	0	1	0	2	0	6	0
Bribery	2	0	4	1	2	0	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	0	1	1	2	2	1	0
Arson	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	1
Food and Drug Offenses	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1
Antitrust Violations	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	2
Manslaughter	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2
Prison Offenses	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Offense type not known	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	284	286	373	345	328	406	492	468

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 Wisconsin by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	180	247	231	201	121	90	95	98
Firearms	95	79	102	75	86	46	84	69
Fraud	44	43	28	35	42	36	36	40
Racketeering/Extortion	20	11	3	7	11	10	23	24
Child Pornography	12	15	11	15	12	17	7	10
Administration of Justice	10	8	18	14	11	17	10	10
Immigration	21	22	16	11	9	5	6	5
Drugs - Communication Facilities	29	14	11	12	10	2	5	6
Assault	9	5	11	9	3	2	7	6
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	7	5	6	15	4	8	4	2
Larceny	7	13	9	4	3	5	7	2
Robbery	6	9	7	2	6	3	0	10
Sexual Abuse	7	4	7	3	9	5	4	4
Forgery/Counterfeiting	2	8	11	5	7	2	1	0
Tax Offenses	7	4	3	7	4	3	3	5
Money Laundering	4	3	13	4	7	0	1	2
Embezzlement	2	2	3	1	2	1	0	3
Food and Drug Offenses	3	0	1	0	0	3	3	2
Auto Theft	0	1	3	3	1	0	1	1
Arson	0	2	0	5	1	0	0	1
Drugs - Simple Possession	1	1	3	1	0	1	0	2
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	1	0	1	3	0	0	2	0
Prison Offenses	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1
Civil Rights Offenses	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Manslaughter	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
All offenses	472	501	500	435	350	257	301	304

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 Wisconsin by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	91	30%
Firearms	85	28%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	33	11%
Robbery	27	9%
Money Launder	10	3%
Prison Offenses	9	3%
Sex Abuse	9	3%
Child Pornography	8	3%
Immigration	7	2%
National Defense	6	2%
Bribery/Corruption	4	1%
Assault	3	1%
Tax	3	1%
Stalking/Harassing	2	1%
Administration of Justice	1	<1%
Drug Possession	1	<1%
Manslaughter	1	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	<1%
Other	1	<1%

All 302 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 Wisconsin by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Black	178	7	59%
Hispanic	56	0	19%
White+MENA	51	0	17%
AIAN	12	0	4%
Asian+NHPI	2	0	1%
Race unknown	3	0	1%

All 302 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 7 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 Wisconsin by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	111	37%
II	49	16%
III	48	16%
IV	25	8%
V	31	10%
VI	38	13%

All 302 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 Wisconsin against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	57	19%
Above the range	7	2%
Below the range, government-sponsored	131	43%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	107	35%

All 302 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 Wisconsin, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	430	185	245	43.0%	57.0%
FY2007	523	203	320	38.8%	61.2%
FY2008	512	195	317	38.1%	61.9%
FY2009	414	170	244	41.1%	58.9%
FY2010	411	177	234	43.1%	56.9%
FY2011	431	151	280	35.0%	65.0%
FY2012	397	117	280	29.5%	70.5%
FY2013	301	114	187	37.9%	62.1%
FY2014	317	119	198	37.5%	62.5%
FY2015	302	111	191	36.8%	63.2%
FY2016	240	93	147	38.8%	61.3%
FY2017	253	115	138	45.5%	54.5%
FY2018	287	105	182	36.6%	63.4%
FY2019	240	112	128	46.7%	53.3%
FY2020	307	128	179	41.7%	58.3%
FY2021	249	103	146	41.4%	58.6%
FY2022	266	115	151	43.2%	56.8%
FY2023	305	151	154	49.5%	50.5%
FY2024	258	131	127	50.8%	49.2%
FY2025	278	113	165	40.6%	59.4%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	420	175	245	41.7%	58.3%
FY2007	505	185	320	36.6%	63.4%
FY2008	497	180	317	36.2%	63.8%
FY2009	401	157	244	39.2%	60.8%
FY2010	389	157	232	40.4%	59.6%
FY2011	417	138	279	33.1%	66.9%
FY2012	391	112	279	28.6%	71.4%
FY2013	294	107	187	36.4%	63.6%
FY2014	314	116	198	36.9%	63.1%
FY2015	294	103	191	35.0%	65.0%
FY2016	239	92	147	38.5%	61.5%
FY2017	251	115	136	45.8%	54.2%
FY2018	278	99	179	35.6%	64.4%
FY2019	227	102	125	44.9%	55.1%
FY2020	287	117	170	40.8%	59.2%
FY2021	242	99	143	40.9%	59.1%
FY2022	265	114	151	43.0%	57.0%
FY2023	303	150	153	49.5%	50.5%
FY2024	252	126	126	50.0%	50.0%
FY2025	271	107	164	39.5%	60.5%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	254	105	149	41.3%	58.7%
FY2023	288	136	152	47.2%	52.8%
FY2024	245	122	123	49.8%	50.2%
FY2025	251	88	163	35.1%	64.9%

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