Middle District of Georgia

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 405
Noncitizens, FY2025: 11%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 292
Detained, FY2025: 55.8%

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	80%325	325
Prison and alternatives	<1%1	1
Probation and alternatives	1%4	4
Probation only	7%29	29
Fine only	11%46	46

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 60 months (mean 84) for the 326 sentenced to prison, 1 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	31%127	127
Firearms	20%79	79
Other	15%62	62
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	14%55	55
Immigration	6%24	24
Sex Abuse	4%17	17
Commercialized Vice	3%12	12
Child Pornography	2%8	8
Administration of Justice	1%5	5
Prison Offenses	1%5	5
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1%4	4
Assault	<1%1	1
Drug Possession	<1%1	1
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	<1%1	1
Money Launder	<1%1	1
Robbery	<1%1	1
Stalking/Harassing	<1%1	1
Tax	<1%1	1

All 405 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

People sentenced in the Middle District of Georgia by offense, FY2018 to FY2025

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	127	141	100	135	185	169	175	127
Firearms	55	66	68	76	105	72	102	79
Other	77	67	65	56	46	46	46	62
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	47	43	36	32	34	23	35	55
Immigration	57	44	35	23	20	22	16	24
Sex Abuse	24	4	8	12	9	15	10	17
Administration of Justice	5	15	4	15	15	8	5	5
Child Pornography	7	10	5	5	9	8	8	8
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	4	3	7	7	2	6	4	4
Robbery	5	5	4	5	5	4	4	1
Commercialized Vice	2	4	1	9	4	0	0	12
Drug Possession	5	3	7	5	8	2	0	1
Assault	5	2	1	3	0	1	5	1
Tax	2	5	2	1	1	3	1	1
Stalking/Harassing	2	0	4	1	3	2	1	1
Bribery/Corruption	2	2	2	0	0	0	6	0
Prison Offenses	2	2	1	0	1	0	0	5
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1	2	3	0	1	0	1	1
Murder	0	0	0	0	1	0	6	0
Environmental	0	0	2	0	0	2	1	0
Money Launder	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	1
Individual Rights	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
Extortion/Racketeering	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
National Defense	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	429	420	355	386	453	384	428	405

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	82%333	333
Not a U.S. citizen	11%46	46
Citizenship not known	6%26	26

24 of the 405 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black	54%217	217
White+MENA, 1 placed by CrimeDB	20%81	81
Hispanic, 1 placed by CrimeDB	13%52	52
Asian+NHPI	<1%1	1
Race unknown	13%54	54

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 405 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	44%178	178
II	13%51	51
III	15%59	59
IV	7%27	27
V	7%27	27
VI	14%56	56
Category not known	2%7	7

All 405 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	67%273	273
Above the range	3%12	12
Below the range, government-sponsored	7%27	27
Below the range, not government-sponsored	21%86	86
Not known or not comparable	2%7	7

All 405 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	292	163	129	55.8%	44.2%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	272	143	129	52.6%	47.4%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	267	138	129	51.7%	48.3%

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 Middle District of Georgia, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	353	328	20	5	11
FY2003	569	481	16	72	8
FY2004	459	336	27	96	5
FY2005	452	341	27	84	8
FY2006	494	408	20	66	8
FY2007	538	356	32	150	12
FY2008	443	317	27	99	15
FY2009	423	288	17	118	4
FY2010	421	250	44	127	23
FY2011	445	311	72	62	54
FY2012	454	345	67	42	43
FY2013	508	384	74	50	46
FY2014	508	370	66	72	49
FY2015	377	290	47	40	41
FY2016	368	291	44	33	26
FY2017	466	355	81	30	53
FY2018	429	328	63	38	57
FY2019	420	329	57	34	44
FY2020	355	270	46	39	35
FY2021	386	335	35	16	23
FY2022	453	401	33	19	20
FY2023	384	337	30	17	22
FY2024	428	369	38	21	16
FY2025	405	333	46	26	24

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 Middle District of Georgia, 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	353	243	4	14	88	2	2	70%	0
FY2003*	569	273	11	11	255	17	2	50%	0
FY2004	459	257	11	5	182	3	1	59%	0
FY2005*	452	288	5	6	141	9	3	65%	0
FY2006	494	321	2	14	140	16	1	66%	2
FY2007	538	322	3	9	183	20	1	61%	2
FY2008*	443	265	4	2	158	12	2	61%	0
FY2009	423	210	3	11	182	17	0	50%	1
FY2010*	421	231	2	5	164	19	0	55%	1
FY2011	445	285	4	9	98	49	0	65%	1
FY2012	454	275	5	5	123	46	0	62%	1
FY2013	508	326	1	8	129	44	0	64%	2
FY2014	508	358	2	3	97	48	0	71%	0
FY2015	377	274	0	1	65	37	0	73%	0
FY2016	368	268	4	4	63	29	0	74%	1
FY2017	466	330	2	5	95	34	0	71%	0
FY2018	429	316	0	3	69	41	0	74%	1
FY2019*	420	315	2	8	61	34	0	75%	0
FY2020	355	256	1	8	50	40	0	72%	0
FY2021	386	298	1	4	52	31	0	77%	0
FY2022	453	376	0	2	50	25	0	83%	0
FY2023	384	325	0	1	33	25	0	85%	0
FY2024*	428	361	0	0	43	24	0	84%	4
FY2025	405	325	1	4	29	46	0	80%	1

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 Middle District of Georgia, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	55	27	351	78	54	246
FY2003*	37	2	568	74	57	284
FY2004	42	6	457	72	52	265
FY2005*	44	15	451	67	46	293
FY2006	44	12	493	69	48	317
FY2007	44	15	537	74	57	322
FY2008*	38	10	441	62	37	269
FY2009	28	1	423	56	41	209
FY2010*	38	6	421	69	50	231
FY2011	36	7	445	57	30	283
FY2012	32	6	454	52	36	278
FY2013	42	8	508	68	46	314
FY2014	43	15	508	62	38	350
FY2015	45	22	377	65	46	261
FY2016	46	21	368	65	42	260
FY2017	37	15	466	58	36	300
FY2018	46	24	429	63	46	316
FY2019*	52	30	420	68	46	317
FY2020	51	24	355	70	48	257
FY2021	53	30	386	68	50	299
FY2022	76	48	453	92	60	376
FY2023	75	48	384	88	60	325
FY2024*	82	57	428	97	70	361
FY2025	68	40	405	84	60	326

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 Middle District of Georgia by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	119	160	136	130	142	158	123	85
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	15	166	117	94	81	142	116	138
Larceny	44	72	63	57	83	42	42	34
Firearms	40	47	39	61	69	73	43	42
Fraud	25	27	29	43	27	51	34	38
Drugs - Simple Possession	26	42	19	20	24	12	11	21
Robbery	22	11	17	4	8	5	8	8
Immigration	11	8	5	8	8	12	15	4
Forgery/Counterfeiting	7	9	13	8	9	5	5	12
Administration of Justice	6	5	7	7	8	11	13	7
Drugs - Communication Facilities	12	3	0	2	8	4	6	8
Pornography/Prostitution	1	2	2	6	4	5	8	3
Embezzlement	5	6	1	2	9	2	3	1
Assault	2	4	4	3	4	5	3	1
Racketeering/Extortion	2	2	2	4	0	3	5	5
Tax Offenses	7	1	0	0	4	1	1	6
Money Laundering	5	1	2	1	0	1	0	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	5
Sexual Abuse	0	1	1	0	2	1	1	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	0
Prison Offenses	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	1
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
Civil Rights Offenses	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Arson	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Bribery	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	0
All offenses	353	569	459	452	494	538	443	423

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 Middle District of Georgia by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	130	118	138	146	107	91	82	81
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	90	89	107	105	136	94	97	130
Firearms	51	48	33	61	61	36	54	56
Immigration	23	54	43	46	49	41	26	53
Fraud	19	29	36	35	54	30	33	29
Larceny	39	32	17	25	19	6	10	17
Administration of Justice	10	5	12	21	14	12	9	11
Drugs - Simple Possession	13	10	12	10	9	12	5	16
Forgery/Counterfeiting	4	16	5	9	15	12	4	4
Drugs - Communication Facilities	10	1	10	7	7	8	10	14
Child Pornography	5	9	10	8	7	11	8	7
Robbery	13	4	4	3	4	3	6	6
Embezzlement	1	5	3	11	3	5	2	5
Sexual Abuse	1	1	3	0	1	2	3	18
Assault	1	4	1	3	7	2	2	3
Racketeering/Extortion	3	2	4	2	2	1	4	5
Gambling/Lottery	0	11	4	0	0	0	3	1
Money Laundering	2	0	4	2	2	2	1	4
Bribery	1	0	0	4	4	0	6	0
Tax Offenses	1	3	2	3	3	1	1	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	1	1	4	4	1	0	0	0
Prison Offenses	0	0	0	1	2	1	2	4
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	1	2	0	6	0	0
National Defense Offenses	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	0
Arson	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Auto Theft	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	421	445	454	508	508	377	368	466

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 Middle District of Georgia by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	127	31%
Firearms	79	20%
Other	62	15%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	55	14%
Immigration	24	6%
Sex Abuse	17	4%
Commercialized Vice	12	3%
Child Pornography	8	2%
Administration of Justice	5	1%
Prison Offenses	5	1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	4	1%
Assault	1	<1%
Drug Possession	1	<1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1	<1%
Money Launder	1	<1%
Robbery	1	<1%
Stalking/Harassing	1	<1%
Tax	1	<1%

All 405 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 Middle District of Georgia by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Black	217	0	54%
White+MENA	81	1	20%
Hispanic	52	1	13%
Asian+NHPI	1	0	<1%
Race unknown	54	0	13%

All 405 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 Middle District of Georgia by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	178	44%
II	51	13%
III	59	15%
IV	27	7%
V	27	7%
VI	56	14%
Category not known	7	2%

All 405 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 Middle District of Georgia against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	273	67%
Above the range	12	3%
Below the range, government-sponsored	27	7%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	86	21%
Not known or not comparable	7	2%

All 405 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 Middle District of Georgia, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	281	96	185	34.2%	65.8%
FY2007	354	128	226	36.2%	63.8%
FY2008	267	83	184	31.1%	68.9%
FY2009	249	95	154	38.2%	61.8%
FY2010	259	95	164	36.7%	63.3%
FY2011	375	143	232	38.1%	61.9%
FY2012	310	136	174	43.9%	56.1%
FY2013	387	156	231	40.3%	59.7%
FY2014	329	135	194	41.0%	59.0%
FY2015	268	93	175	34.7%	65.3%
FY2016	315	127	188	40.3%	59.7%
FY2017	319	152	167	47.6%	52.4%
FY2018	394	216	178	54.8%	45.2%
FY2019	361	195	166	54.0%	46.0%
FY2020	334	186	148	55.7%	44.3%
FY2021	350	163	187	46.6%	53.4%
FY2022	325	188	137	57.8%	42.2%
FY2023	360	206	154	57.2%	42.8%
FY2024	267	153	114	57.3%	42.7%
FY2025	292	163	129	55.8%	44.2%

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

Pretrial release and detention in the Middle District of Georgia, excluding immigration cases (Table H-14A)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	276	91	185	33.0%	67.0%
FY2007	332	116	216	34.9%	65.1%
FY2008	260	76	184	29.2%	70.8%
FY2009	233	80	153	34.3%	65.7%
FY2010	245	81	164	33.1%	66.9%
FY2011	317	87	230	27.4%	72.6%
FY2012	277	103	174	37.2%	62.8%
FY2013	351	121	230	34.5%	65.5%
FY2014	287	93	194	32.4%	67.6%
FY2015	240	65	175	27.1%	72.9%
FY2016	289	101	188	34.9%	65.1%
FY2017	277	110	167	39.7%	60.3%
FY2018	332	155	177	46.7%	53.3%
FY2019	326	160	166	49.1%	50.9%
FY2020	308	160	148	51.9%	48.1%
FY2021	332	148	184	44.6%	55.4%
FY2022	305	168	137	55.1%	44.9%
FY2023	344	190	154	55.2%	44.8%
FY2024	253	139	114	54.9%	45.1%
FY2025	272	143	129	52.6%	47.4%

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

Pretrial release and detention in the Middle District of Georgia, excluding illegal alien cases (Table H-14B)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	301	164	137	54.5%	45.5%
FY2023	335	185	150	55.2%	44.8%
FY2024	247	135	112	54.7%	45.3%
FY2025	267	138	129	51.7%	48.3%

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