Northern 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: 502
Noncitizens, FY2025: 41%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 461
Detained, FY2025: 59.2%

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	89%449	449
Prison and alternatives	3%13	13
Probation and alternatives	3%14	14
Probation only	5%26	26

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 35 months (mean 58) for the 462 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
Immigration	27%136	136
Drug Trafficking	24%120	120
Firearms	20%98	98
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	11%53	53
Money Launder	5%25	25
Child Pornography	5%24	24
Robbery	2%10	10
Sex Abuse	2%10	10
Tax	1%7	7
Administration of Justice	1%6	6
Assault	1%3	3
Stalking/Harassing	1%3	3
Individual Rights	<1%2	2
Prison Offenses	<1%2	2
Arson	<1%1	1
Drug Possession	<1%1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%1	1

All 502 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	122	114	126	129	165	174	146	120
Immigration	109	124	108	110	92	69	57	136
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	112	90	84	108	99	104	88	53
Firearms	66	72	80	67	108	99	64	98
Money Launder	25	21	11	25	24	52	33	25
Robbery	30	21	18	17	24	11	10	10
Child Pornography	17	14	6	20	23	16	17	24
Sex Abuse	15	8	9	13	12	12	11	10
Tax	4	5	3	6	6	5	14	7
Bribery/Corruption	13	11	5	6	2	9	3	0
Administration of Justice	8	5	5	6	5	6	5	6
Assault	5	4	3	4	13	6	8	3
Murder	0	3	8	11	10	3	0	0
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	5	5	4	1	2	3	4	1
Prison Offenses	8	0	3	4	1	1	3	2
Other	3	6	3	1	2	2	3	0
Stalking/Harassing	2	1	5	1	3	2	1	3
National Defense	5	1	1	2	2	2	3	0
Extortion/Racketeering	6	1	1	2	0	2	1	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	9	2	0	1	0	0	1	0
Food and Drug	0	2	2	3	2	3	0	0
Arson	0	1	1	3	5	0	0	1
Individual Rights	3	0	0	0	1	1	3	2
Environmental	0	1	2	2	1	1	1	0
Kidnapping	0	0	0	2	4	0	1	0
Commercialized Vice	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Drug Possession	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1
Antitrust	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Burglary/Trespass	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	570	513	490	544	609	585	477	502

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	59%298	298
Not a U.S. citizen	41%204	204
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

136 of the 502 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Hispanic, 3 placed by CrimeDB	45%228	228
Black, 7 placed by CrimeDB	36%182	182
White+MENA, 1 placed by CrimeDB	16%79	79
Asian+NHPI	2%10	10
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 502 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 11 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	54%272	272
II	19%93	93
III	13%66	66
IV	5%25	25
V	3%16	16
VI	6%30	30

All 502 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	35%176	176
Above the range	2%12	12
Below the range, government-sponsored	39%197	197
Below the range, not government-sponsored	23%117	117

All 502 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	461	273	188	59.2%	40.8%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	318	130	188	40.9%	59.1%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	286	101	185	35.3%	64.7%

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 Northern District of Georgia, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	786	558	221	7	88
FY2003	775	525	215	35	93
FY2004	749	500	221	28	102
FY2005	703	478	212	13	54
FY2006	757	488	242	27	68
FY2007	609	411	182	16	62
FY2008	720	440	266	14	83
FY2009	789	441	329	19	143
FY2010	703	408	265	30	142
FY2011	711	382	291	38	155
FY2012	665	405	241	19	91
FY2013	515	302	195	18	80
FY2014	609	427	175	7	101
FY2015	592	388	196	8	87
FY2016	542	421	120	1	73
FY2017	530	404	121	5	76
FY2018	570	388	179	3	109
FY2019	513	311	200	2	124
FY2020	490	293	196	1	108
FY2021	544	348	195	1	110
FY2022	609	420	189	0	92
FY2023	585	418	164	3	69
FY2024	477	330	145	2	57
FY2025	502	298	204	0	136

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 Northern 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	786	686	28	38	33	0	1	91%	1
FY2003*	775	630	17	52	57	18	1	84%	3
FY2004	749	627	15	45	51	11	0	86%	1
FY2005*	703	604	26	35	37	1	0	90%	4
FY2006	757	603	21	58	59	15	1	83%	10
FY2007	609	516	13	37	39	4	0	87%	0
FY2008*	720	625	26	26	41	2	0	90%	10
FY2009	789	712	10	28	32	7	0	92%	6
FY2010*	703	605	17	34	40	7	0	88%	2
FY2011	711	619	12	26	46	8	0	89%	2
FY2012	665	579	32	22	32	0	0	92%	3
FY2013	515	456	9	22	21	7	0	90%	0
FY2014	609	542	23	17	25	2	0	93%	5
FY2015	592	498	21	29	43	1	0	88%	1
FY2016	542	466	18	25	26	7	0	89%	0
FY2017	530	454	28	23	23	2	0	91%	1
FY2018	570	487	9	28	46	0	0	87%	0
FY2019*	513	459	14	16	23	1	0	92%	0
FY2020	490	438	15	15	21	1	0	92%	0
FY2021	544	476	17	27	24	0	0	91%	2
FY2022	609	545	17	17	30	0	0	92%	0
FY2023	585	524	10	19	31	1	0	91%	1
FY2024*	477	424	6	16	30	1	0	90%	0
FY2025	502	449	13	14	26	0	0	92%	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 Northern 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	66	45	785	72	48	714
FY2003*	64	42	774	76	52	647
FY2004	60	33	749	69	41	642
FY2005*	72	46	703	80	51	630
FY2006	74	37	756	89	51	624
FY2007	71	46	609	82	56	529
FY2008*	78	46	720	86	51	651
FY2009	81	46	789	88	55	716
FY2010*	73	45	703	84	51	609
FY2011	66	41	711	75	51	623
FY2012	66	44	664	72	48	604
FY2013	69	48	515	77	60	460
FY2014	71	45	609	76	48	562
FY2015	63	41	592	71	51	514
FY2016	55	36	542	61	43	481
FY2017	54	33	530	60	38	473
FY2018	59	33	570	67	43	496
FY2019*	55	28	513	60	36	473
FY2020	62	30	490	66	36	453
FY2021	57	31	544	63	40	493
FY2022	66	42	609	71	48	562
FY2023	64	41	585	70	48	534
FY2024*	64	46	477	71	51	430
FY2025	54	28	502	58	35	462

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 Northern District of Georgia by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	241	237	149	232	209	125	168	263
Fraud	120	119	133	114	144	129	154	135
Firearms	113	94	147	136	116	119	126	105
Immigration	88	93	102	54	68	62	83	143
Robbery	32	45	34	18	17	17	18	16
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	11	27	24	15	46	21	15	15
Pornography/Prostitution	22	23	19	17	23	19	14	27
Larceny	22	29	30	14	20	16	16	15
Forgery/Counterfeiting	17	19	19	16	17	19	20	4
Racketeering/Extortion	41	13	12	16	5	9	31	3
Money Laundering	19	2	9	10	9	22	21	8
Administration of Justice	8	15	12	15	26	4	5	8
Drugs - Simple Possession	5	10	20	13	16	8	5	6
Tax Offenses	7	11	5	7	1	5	10	11
Drugs - Communication Facilities	20	7	3	6	5	3	1	3
Embezzlement	6	14	5	3	6	6	4	4
Prison Offenses	3	2	7	7	2	5	7	3
Sexual Abuse	2	0	1	3	4	7	7	4
Assault	4	3	1	1	8	2	5	2
Bribery	1	2	6	1	5	5	4	2
Auto Theft	0	1	1	2	4	2	2	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	6	0	0	1	0	2
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	5
Arson	2	1	1	2	0	1	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	3
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	1	0	1	3	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Offense type not known	2	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	786	775	749	703	757	609	720	789

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 Northern District of Georgia by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	176	165	159	146	142	133	130	121
Fraud	119	105	124	84	82	142	119	125
Immigration	142	155	91	80	101	87	73	76
Firearms	114	101	108	82	118	76	79	85
Child Pornography	15	24	20	17	23	30	24	25
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	24	24	21	23	14	21	14	15
Larceny	15	7	22	12	21	19	18	13
Racketeering/Extortion	7	2	21	8	15	29	16	15
Money Laundering	28	18	20	7	12	5	11	7
Administration of Justice	3	16	18	11	14	7	10	12
Drugs - Simple Possession	13	26	13	2	1	3	7	1
Sexual Abuse	5	10	4	5	13	3	9	4
Tax Offenses	7	10	5	7	7	2	5	1
Forgery/Counterfeiting	6	4	6	5	10	3	2	7
Robbery	4	10	0	6	5	5	10	2
Drugs - Communication Facilities	2	5	8	3	7	2	2	4
Bribery	1	2	10	4	4	4	3	1
Embezzlement	3	4	2	1	4	7	4	2
Assault	3	3	4	2	5	1	2	5
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	3	10	1	2	3	1	0	0
Prison Offenses	2	1	2	1	0	3	0	5
Auto Theft	1	1	1	2	3	0	3	0
Civil Rights Offenses	3	1	1	2	1	1	0	2
National Defense Offenses	1	1	2	0	0	3	1	1
Food and Drug Offenses	2	0	0	1	1	4	0	0
Murder	1	0	2	0	3	0	0	1
Arson	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
Antitrust Violations	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
All offenses	703	711	665	515	609	592	542	530

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 Northern District of Georgia by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Immigration	136	27%
Drug Trafficking	120	24%
Firearms	98	20%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	53	11%
Money Launder	25	5%
Child Pornography	24	5%
Robbery	10	2%
Sex Abuse	10	2%
Tax	7	1%
Administration of Justice	6	1%
Assault	3	1%
Stalking/Harassing	3	1%
Individual Rights	2	<1%
Prison Offenses	2	<1%
Arson	1	<1%
Drug Possession	1	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	<1%

All 502 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 Northern District of Georgia by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Hispanic	228	3	45%
Black	182	7	36%
White+MENA	79	1	16%
Asian+NHPI	10	0	2%
Race unknown	3	0	1%

All 502 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 11 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 Northern District of Georgia by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	272	54%
II	93	19%
III	66	13%
IV	25	5%
V	16	3%
VI	30	6%

All 502 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 Northern District of Georgia against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	176	35%
Above the range	12	2%
Below the range, government-sponsored	197	39%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	117	23%

All 502 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 Northern District of Georgia, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	746	382	364	51.2%	48.8%
FY2007	609	340	269	55.8%	44.2%
FY2008	640	405	235	63.3%	36.7%
FY2009	633	409	224	64.6%	35.4%
FY2010	619	365	254	59.0%	41.0%
FY2011	710	401	309	56.5%	43.5%
FY2012	488	274	214	56.1%	43.9%
FY2013	558	272	286	48.7%	51.3%
FY2014	558	269	289	48.2%	51.8%
FY2015	507	238	269	46.9%	53.1%
FY2016	583	228	355	39.1%	60.9%
FY2017	507	241	266	47.5%	52.5%
FY2018	566	298	268	52.7%	47.3%
FY2019	609	321	288	52.7%	47.3%
FY2020	571	271	300	47.5%	52.5%
FY2021	554	255	299	46.0%	54.0%
FY2022	479	228	251	47.6%	52.4%
FY2023	421	188	233	44.7%	55.3%
FY2024	385	173	212	44.9%	55.1%
FY2025	461	273	188	59.2%	40.8%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	691	327	364	47.3%	52.7%
FY2007	563	295	268	52.4%	47.6%
FY2008	589	354	235	60.1%	39.9%
FY2009	528	305	223	57.8%	42.2%
FY2010	514	260	254	50.6%	49.4%
FY2011	607	298	309	49.1%	50.9%
FY2012	414	200	214	48.3%	51.7%
FY2013	480	194	286	40.4%	59.6%
FY2014	486	197	289	40.5%	59.5%
FY2015	438	169	269	38.6%	61.4%
FY2016	523	168	355	32.1%	67.9%
FY2017	449	183	266	40.8%	59.2%
FY2018	479	212	267	44.3%	55.7%
FY2019	531	244	287	46.0%	54.0%
FY2020	482	185	297	38.4%	61.6%
FY2021	453	160	293	35.3%	64.7%
FY2022	404	153	251	37.9%	62.1%
FY2023	365	132	233	36.2%	63.8%
FY2024	351	139	212	39.6%	60.4%
FY2025	318	130	188	40.9%	59.1%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	388	140	248	36.1%	63.9%
FY2023	351	118	233	33.6%	66.4%
FY2024	316	105	211	33.2%	66.8%
FY2025	286	101	185	35.3%	64.7%

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