Northern District of Indiana

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 279
Noncitizens, FY2025: 11%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 305
Detained, FY2025: 63.0%

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	88%245	245
Prison and alternatives	1%3	3
Probation and alternatives	2%6	6
Probation only	9%25	25

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 60 months (mean 91) for the 248 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
Firearms	37%102	102
Drug Trafficking	29%82	82
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	14%39	39
Immigration	7%19	19
Child Pornography	4%12	12
Murder	2%6	6
Sex Abuse	2%6	6
Robbery	1%4	4
Assault	1%2	2
Administration of Justice	<1%1	1
Environmental	<1%1	1
Extortion/Racketeering	<1%1	1
Individual Rights	<1%1	1
Money Launder	<1%1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%1	1
Other	<1%1	1

All 279 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Firearms	123	118	112	141	137	101	83	102
Drug Trafficking	106	87	111	106	94	85	71	82
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	51	72	31	33	29	25	30	39
Robbery	17	12	15	15	13	9	5	4
Child Pornography	18	10	3	5	10	11	10	12
Sex Abuse	9	10	9	10	11	9	12	6
Immigration	7	15	8	5	5	9	7	19
Murder	10	9	10	7	8	4	6	6
Tax	6	5	2	4	5	2	1	0
Assault	3	3	2	5	4	1	2	2
Prison Offenses	1	1	3	4	3	3	2	0
Other	5	7	1	0	0	1	0	1
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	2	5	1	0	1	0	0	0
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	3	1	0	1	1	0	1
Bribery/Corruption	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
Administration of Justice	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	1
Stalking/Harassing	0	0	2	1	0	0	3	0
Extortion/Racketeering	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	1
Individual Rights	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	1
Environmental	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	1
Kidnapping	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0
Money Launder	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
National Defense	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Arson	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Commercialized Vice	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Drug Possession	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Food and Drug	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	373	360	316	342	327	262	236	279

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	89%248	248
Not a U.S. citizen	11%31	31
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

19 of the 279 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black	53%147	147
White+MENA, 2 placed by CrimeDB	28%78	78
Hispanic, 1 placed by CrimeDB	19%52	52
Asian+NHPI	1%2	2

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 279 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 3 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	39%110	110
II	16%44	44
III	15%42	42
IV	9%24	24
V	8%22	22
VI	13%37	37

All 279 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	52%146	146
Above the range	3%8	8
Below the range, government-sponsored	17%48	48
Below the range, not government-sponsored	28%77	77

All 279 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	305	192	113	63.0%	37.0%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	274	162	112	59.1%	40.9%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	250	139	111	55.6%	44.4%

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 Indiana, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	405	365	39	1	2
FY2003	394	370	23	1	2
FY2004	324	298	25	1	6
FY2005	375	336	38	1	5
FY2006	405	374	31	0	13
FY2007	426	383	40	3	8
FY2008	455	405	48	2	12
FY2009	452	383	69	0	15
FY2010	464	417	46	1	17
FY2011	454	387	65	2	12
FY2012	407	357	46	4	12
FY2013	427	378	48	1	4
FY2014	371	325	45	1	9
FY2015	273	248	24	1	6
FY2016	300	282	16	2	1
FY2017	290	265	23	2	6
FY2018	373	343	28	2	7
FY2019	360	327	33	0	15
FY2020	316	296	19	1	8
FY2021	342	314	28	0	5
FY2022	327	311	16	0	5
FY2023	262	246	16	0	9
FY2024	236	214	22	0	7
FY2025	279	248	31	0	19

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 Indiana, 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	405	351	16	10	26	2	0	91%	2
FY2003*	394	314	12	32	34	2	0	83%	2
FY2004	324	255	11	16	41	0	1	82%	1
FY2005*	375	307	19	22	24	2	1	87%	2
FY2006	405	312	16	29	44	2	2	81%	4
FY2007	426	313	29	29	54	1	0	80%	0
FY2008*	455	372	13	30	39	1	0	85%	2
FY2009	452	373	16	23	40	0	0	86%	2
FY2010*	464	367	15	31	51	0	0	82%	1
FY2011	454	342	30	33	49	0	0	82%	3
FY2012	407	304	30	26	46	1	0	82%	2
FY2013	427	348	15	29	34	1	0	85%	0
FY2014	371	291	19	22	39	0	0	84%	1
FY2015	273	216	7	22	28	0	0	82%	2
FY2016	300	238	9	28	25	0	0	82%	0
FY2017	290	231	16	18	25	0	0	85%	1
FY2018	373	313	10	11	38	1	0	87%	1
FY2019*	360	280	20	14	46	0	0	83%	1
FY2020	316	280	11	11	14	0	0	92%	1
FY2021	342	301	10	15	16	0	0	91%	1
FY2022	327	269	9	25	24	0	0	85%	0
FY2023	262	223	10	9	20	0	0	89%	2
FY2024*	236	206	5	4	21	0	0	89%	2
FY2025	279	245	3	6	25	0	0	89%	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 Northern District of Indiana, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	68	48	405	75	57	367
FY2003*	62	41	394	74	51	326
FY2004	62	37	323	75	48	265
FY2005*	55	37	373	63	46	322
FY2006	54	33	402	66	46	327
FY2007	51	30	426	62	46	342
FY2008*	57	37	455	67	46	385
FY2009	54	33	452	63	41	385
FY2010*	48	30	464	59	41	379
FY2011	52	30	454	62	39	368
FY2012	48	30	407	58	41	330
FY2013	65	41	427	76	51	361
FY2014	58	30	371	70	42	306
FY2015	65	37	273	79	51	221
FY2016	48	27	300	59	37	238
FY2017	59	30	290	69	40	245
FY2018	63	46	373	72	52	323
FY2019*	58	30	360	68	44	300
FY2020	72	51	316	78	51	291
FY2021	77	46	342	84	51	311
FY2022	79	46	327	92	59	278
FY2023	83	55	262	92	63	233
FY2024*	83	51	236	92	70	211
FY2025	81	50	279	91	60	248

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 Indiana by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	181	154	114	120	120	111	149	141
Firearms	70	92	77	133	136	119	134	138
Fraud	42	41	46	45	61	91	66	63
Robbery	32	14	11	14	8	8	10	10
Larceny	11	13	8	6	8	13	9	16
Drugs - Communication Facilities	21	21	13	4	3	5	3	7
Immigration	2	2	6	5	13	8	12	15
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	2	7	7	4	8	15	6	14
Pornography/Prostitution	2	4	9	9	8	9	8	11
Administration of Justice	1	6	13	7	4	7	5	5
Embezzlement	2	3	0	4	8	2	9	11
Forgery/Counterfeiting	7	8	2	2	5	6	8	1
Racketeering/Extortion	7	10	4	1	2	4	3	6
Sexual Abuse	1	1	1	0	1	13	18	2
Drugs - Simple Possession	10	9	3	3	1	2	5	2
Tax Offenses	2	0	1	4	9	8	5	3
Money Laundering	3	5	2	7	0	3	1	1
Assault	1	1	3	2	0	1	2	2
Prison Offenses	2	0	0	1	6	0	1	0
Murder	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2
Civil Rights Offenses	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Arson	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bribery	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	405	394	324	375	405	426	455	452

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 Indiana by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Firearms	169	144	122	112	126	85	127	127
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	150	137	123	140	94	73	55	62
Fraud	41	58	59	53	43	49	55	33
Child Pornography	7	13	19	31	20	13	10	7
Larceny	12	11	13	12	21	4	9	10
Immigration	17	12	12	4	9	6	1	6
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	13	16	12	7	5	4	5	3
Robbery	10	14	11	5	9	6	3	3
Racketeering/Extortion	4	2	2	19	3	9	7	9
Drugs - Communication Facilities	13	9	11	5	6	2	0	2
Administration of Justice	6	5	5	6	12	2	9	2
Tax Offenses	2	6	5	7	7	5	3	5
Embezzlement	5	3	3	1	4	0	8	10
Forgery/Counterfeiting	1	6	1	8	2	1	0	4
Drugs - Simple Possession	6	3	3	0	0	1	3	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	8	0	3	1	1	0	1
Money Laundering	0	0	2	4	3	4	0	1
Assault	4	2	1	2	0	1	1	0
Sexual Abuse	2	1	1	1	0	1	1	2
Arson	1	1	0	2	0	4	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	1
Prison Offenses	0	1	0	1	0	2	1	1
Bribery	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Murder	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
All offenses	464	454	407	427	371	273	300	290

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 Indiana by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Firearms	102	37%
Drug Trafficking	82	29%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	39	14%
Immigration	19	7%
Child Pornography	12	4%
Murder	6	2%
Sex Abuse	6	2%
Robbery	4	1%
Assault	2	1%
Administration of Justice	1	<1%
Environmental	1	<1%
Extortion/Racketeering	1	<1%
Individual Rights	1	<1%
Money Launder	1	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	<1%
Other	1	<1%

All 279 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 Indiana by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Black	147	0	53%
White+MENA	78	2	28%
Hispanic	52	1	19%
Asian+NHPI	2	0	1%

All 279 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 3 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 Indiana by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	110	39%
II	44	16%
III	42	15%
IV	24	9%
V	22	8%
VI	37	13%

All 279 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 Indiana against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	146	52%
Above the range	8	3%
Below the range, government-sponsored	48	17%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	77	28%

All 279 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 Indiana, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	479	242	237	50.5%	49.5%
FY2007	411	225	186	54.7%	45.3%
FY2008	530	312	218	58.9%	41.1%
FY2009	485	265	220	54.6%	45.4%
FY2010	509	259	250	50.9%	49.1%
FY2011	516	280	236	54.3%	45.7%
FY2012	412	237	175	57.5%	42.5%
FY2013	378	217	161	57.4%	42.6%
FY2014	292	175	117	59.9%	40.1%
FY2015	328	200	128	61.0%	39.0%
FY2016	351	228	123	65.0%	35.0%
FY2017	347	209	138	60.2%	39.8%
FY2018	444	283	161	63.7%	36.3%
FY2019	348	251	97	72.1%	27.9%
FY2020	322	207	115	64.3%	35.7%
FY2021	307	195	112	63.5%	36.5%
FY2022	286	178	108	62.2%	37.8%
FY2023	266	160	106	60.2%	39.8%
FY2024	214	135	79	63.1%	36.9%
FY2025	305	192	113	63.0%	37.0%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	473	237	236	50.1%	49.9%
FY2007	404	218	186	54.0%	46.0%
FY2008	516	298	218	57.8%	42.2%
FY2009	446	237	209	53.1%	46.9%
FY2010	494	245	249	49.6%	50.4%
FY2011	497	261	236	52.5%	47.5%
FY2012	405	230	175	56.8%	43.2%
FY2013	369	208	161	56.4%	43.6%
FY2014	286	169	117	59.1%	40.9%
FY2015	324	196	128	60.5%	39.5%
FY2016	346	223	123	64.5%	35.5%
FY2017	344	206	138	59.9%	40.1%
FY2018	432	271	161	62.7%	37.3%
FY2019	337	240	97	71.2%	28.8%
FY2020	317	202	115	63.7%	36.3%
FY2021	299	187	112	62.5%	37.5%
FY2022	279	171	108	61.3%	38.7%
FY2023	259	153	106	59.1%	40.9%
FY2024	208	130	78	62.5%	37.5%
FY2025	274	162	112	59.1%	40.9%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	277	169	108	61.0%	39.0%
FY2023	248	142	106	57.3%	42.7%
FY2024	191	113	78	59.2%	40.8%
FY2025	250	139	111	55.6%	44.4%

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