Northern District of Mississippi

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 180
Noncitizens, FY2025: 4%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 182
Detained, FY2025: 60.4%

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	93%168	168
Prison and alternatives	2%3	3
Probation only	5%9	9

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 41 months (mean 61) for the 171 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	26%46	46
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	22%40	40
Firearms	21%38	38
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	8%14	14
Child Pornography	6%11	11
Money Launder	4%7	7
Sex Abuse	4%7	7
Assault	2%3	3
Immigration	2%3	3
Robbery	2%3	3
Commercialized Vice	1%1	1
Kidnapping	1%1	1
Manslaughter	1%1	1
Murder	1%1	1
Other	1%1	1
Prison Offenses	1%1	1
Stalking/Harassing	1%1	1
Tax	1%1	1

All 180 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	42	68	31	25	50	54	50	46
Firearms	36	37	39	22	29	52	45	38
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	27	32	14	10	13	12	31	40
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	24	13	7	6	14	7	12	14
Child Pornography	1	6	3	9	9	6	10	11
Sex Abuse	5	2	5	2	5	3	7	7
Assault	3	6	11	1	1	4	4	3
Immigration	11	2	8	2	1	3	0	3
Robbery	4	1	6	2	1	7	1	3
Money Launder	2	4	4	0	1	2	4	7
Environmental	1	0	1	3	3	4	3	0
Administration of Justice	5	2	1	1	0	1	4	0
Murder	3	0	1	0	1	0	6	1
Stalking/Harassing	1	3	2	0	0	2	1	1
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	4	1	1	1	0	1	0	0
Other	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	1
Tax	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	1
Individual Rights	1	1	0	0	3	0	0	0
Prison Offenses	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1
Burglary/Trespass	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0
Commercialized Vice	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Drug Possession	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0
Kidnapping	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Food and Drug	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Arson	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bribery/Corruption	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Extortion/Racketeering	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
All offenses	173	188	136	87	133	164	185	180

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	96%172	172
Not a U.S. citizen	4%8	8
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

3 of the 180 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black	68%122	122
White+MENA, 1 placed by CrimeDB	26%46	46
Hispanic	6%10	10
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 180 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 1 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	50%90	90
II	14%25	25
III	17%30	30
IV	7%12	12
V	6%11	11
VI	6%11	11
Category not known	1%1	1

All 180 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%93	93
Above the range	8%14	14
Below the range, government-sponsored	16%28	28
Below the range, not government-sponsored	24%44	44
Not known or not comparable	1%1	1

All 180 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	182	110	72	60.4%	39.6%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	178	106	72	59.6%	40.4%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	172	100	72	58.1%	41.9%

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 Northern District of Mississippi, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	165	161	4	0	4
FY2003	169	161	6	2	2
FY2004	167	159	8	0	5
FY2005	197	190	6	1	0
FY2006	174	164	10	0	3
FY2007	193	182	5	6	4
FY2008	185	163	12	10	13
FY2009	139	125	11	3	6
FY2010	172	162	8	2	6
FY2011	184	172	10	2	6
FY2012	171	158	10	3	4
FY2013	202	194	7	1	2
FY2014	224	218	3	3	0
FY2015	158	150	8	0	4
FY2016	169	159	9	1	6
FY2017	158	143	15	0	9
FY2018	173	152	21	0	11
FY2019	188	175	13	0	2
FY2020	136	121	13	2	8
FY2021	87	82	5	0	2
FY2022	133	125	8	0	1
FY2023	164	158	4	2	3
FY2024	185	182	1	2	0
FY2025	180	172	8	0	3

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 Mississippi, 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	165	131	5	8	21	0	0	82%	0
FY2003*	169	129	5	19	14	1	1	80%	1
FY2004	167	137	4	15	11	0	0	84%	1
FY2005*	197	165	3	6	23	0	0	85%	0
FY2006	174	154	0	10	10	0	0	89%	1
FY2007	193	155	3	13	22	0	0	82%	0
FY2008*	185	144	4	12	22	3	0	80%	0
FY2009	139	120	3	4	12	0	0	88%	0
FY2010*	172	143	6	9	14	0	0	87%	0
FY2011	184	153	4	13	14	0	0	85%	0
FY2012	171	144	4	8	15	0	0	87%	0
FY2013	202	157	6	18	21	0	0	81%	0
FY2014	224	164	10	20	29	1	0	78%	0
FY2015	158	123	7	11	17	0	0	82%	0
FY2016	169	130	7	7	24	1	0	81%	0
FY2017	158	124	8	8	18	0	0	84%	2
FY2018	173	138	3	8	24	0	0	82%	0
FY2019*	188	153	7	2	26	0	0	85%	0
FY2020	136	116	3	2	15	0	0	88%	0
FY2021	87	65	5	1	15	1	0	80%	0
FY2022	133	107	5	3	18	0	0	84%	0
FY2023	164	141	3	1	17	2	0	88%	0
FY2024*	185	161	5	2	15	2	0	90%	0
FY2025	180	168	3	0	9	0	0	95%	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 Mississippi, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	59	41	165	71	54	136
FY2003*	59	37	168	73	48	134
FY2004	63	38	167	73	51	141
FY2005*	57	45	197	66	57	168
FY2006	57	40	174	64	51	154
FY2007	52	37	193	63	57	158
FY2008*	43	24	185	54	36	144
FY2009	46	36	139	54	38	118
FY2010*	55	38	172	65	57	144
FY2011	60	37	184	71	48	155
FY2012	54	30	171	64	36	144
FY2013	50	30	202	61	46	159
FY2014	49	30	224	63	48	169
FY2015	45	29	158	56	37	124
FY2016	44	24	169	57	34	127
FY2017	50	24	158	62	32	126
FY2018	42	22	173	51	27	141
FY2019*	38	24	188	45	29	160
FY2020	50	33	136	56	39	119
FY2021	50	33	87	61	42	70
FY2022	53	36	133	63	48	112
FY2023	63	40	164	71	46	144
FY2024*	68	40	185	75	47	166
FY2025	58	37	180	61	41	171

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 Mississippi by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	76	74	63	76	76	78	51	50
Firearms	14	19	38	38	33	32	33	19
Fraud	18	22	18	25	20	25	26	21
Forgery/Counterfeiting	19	10	3	3	6	16	13	7
Pornography/Prostitution	1	1	2	14	9	5	3	5
Immigration	4	2	5	0	3	4	13	6
Robbery	8	6	3	5	4	2	5	4
Administration of Justice	3	5	4	1	5	7	3	7
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	3	6	1	6	4	2	10	3
Embezzlement	5	6	2	2	3	2	4	2
Racketeering/Extortion	2	1	9	10	0	3	0	0
Larceny	1	5	3	8	2	1	1	3
Drugs - Communication Facilities	1	1	0	5	1	5	3	1
Drugs - Simple Possession	1	3	3	0	1	1	6	0
Sexual Abuse	0	2	0	0	1	4	5	2
Bribery	0	1	3	0	0	1	2	4
Money Laundering	0	2	3	2	0	1	1	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	6	0	0	0	0	2	1	0
Tax Offenses	2	0	3	0	2	0	1	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	2	0	2	1	1	1
Assault	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	1
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
Auto Theft	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Offense type not known	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	165	169	167	197	174	193	185	139

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 Mississippi by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	49	64	35	62	79	43	28	47
Firearms	36	36	34	42	38	18	25	26
Fraud	23	28	28	32	29	13	23	10
Administration of Justice	12	8	26	29	22	25	26	30
Forgery/Counterfeiting	8	3	15	4	15	16	19	4
Child Pornography	8	19	6	7	5	4	9	4
Immigration	6	6	4	2	0	4	6	9
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	2	2	7	3	1	2	6	7
Embezzlement	5	3	4	4	3	6	3	1
Sexual Abuse	3	3	3	3	12	3	0	2
Racketeering/Extortion	2	0	1	3	1	7	8	3
Larceny	3	1	2	2	5	3	0	3
Robbery	7	1	2	2	1	5	0	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	0	1	1	2	0	7	0
Money Laundering	0	1	1	1	2	3	1	2
Civil Rights Offenses	1	0	0	1	2	1	2	2
Assault	0	2	1	0	2	2	0	1
Arson	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	0
Tax Offenses	0	4	0	0	1	1	1	0
Bribery	0	0	0	1	3	0	1	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
Prison Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Auto Theft	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Food and Drug Offenses	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	172	184	171	202	224	158	169	158

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 Mississippi by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	46	26%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	40	22%
Firearms	38	21%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	14	8%
Child Pornography	11	6%
Money Launder	7	4%
Sex Abuse	7	4%
Assault	3	2%
Immigration	3	2%
Robbery	3	2%
Commercialized Vice	1	1%
Kidnapping	1	1%
Manslaughter	1	1%
Murder	1	1%
Other	1	1%
Prison Offenses	1	1%
Stalking/Harassing	1	1%
Tax	1	1%

All 180 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 Mississippi by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Black	122	0	68%
White+MENA	46	1	26%
Hispanic	10	0	6%
Asian+NHPI	2	0	1%

All 180 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 1 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 Mississippi by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	90	50%
II	25	14%
III	30	17%
IV	12	7%
V	11	6%
VI	11	6%
Category not known	1	1%

All 180 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 Mississippi against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	93	52%
Above the range	14	8%
Below the range, government-sponsored	28	16%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	44	24%
Not known or not comparable	1	1%

All 180 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 Mississippi, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	197	89	108	45.2%	54.8%
FY2007	238	83	155	34.9%	65.1%
FY2008	198	68	130	34.3%	65.7%
FY2009	214	82	132	38.3%	61.7%
FY2010	186	76	110	40.9%	59.1%
FY2011	175	75	100	42.9%	57.1%
FY2012	165	76	89	46.1%	53.9%
FY2013	213	82	131	38.5%	61.5%
FY2014	135	62	73	45.9%	54.1%
FY2015	170	68	102	40.0%	60.0%
FY2016	153	76	77	49.7%	50.3%
FY2017	172	86	86	50.0%	50.0%
FY2018	164	86	78	52.4%	47.6%
FY2019	185	79	106	42.7%	57.3%
FY2020	80	43	37	53.8%	46.3%
FY2021	140	61	79	43.6%	56.4%
FY2022	144	53	91	36.8%	63.2%
FY2023	170	65	105	38.2%	61.8%
FY2024	132	50	82	37.9%	62.1%
FY2025	182	110	72	60.4%	39.6%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	196	88	108	44.9%	55.1%
FY2007	236	81	155	34.3%	65.7%
FY2008	189	59	130	31.2%	68.8%
FY2009	210	78	132	37.1%	62.9%
FY2010	180	71	109	39.4%	60.6%
FY2011	172	72	100	41.9%	58.1%
FY2012	162	73	89	45.1%	54.9%
FY2013	213	82	131	38.5%	61.5%
FY2014	133	60	73	45.1%	54.9%
FY2015	165	63	102	38.2%	61.8%
FY2016	147	71	76	48.3%	51.7%
FY2017	162	76	86	46.9%	53.1%
FY2018	155	77	78	49.7%	50.3%
FY2019	184	79	105	42.9%	57.1%
FY2020	70	33	37	47.1%	52.9%
FY2021	138	59	79	42.8%	57.2%
FY2022	141	50	91	35.5%	64.5%
FY2023	168	63	105	37.5%	62.5%
FY2024	131	49	82	37.4%	62.6%
FY2025	178	106	72	59.6%	40.4%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	138	47	91	34.1%	65.9%
FY2023	167	62	105	37.1%	62.9%
FY2024	126	45	81	35.7%	64.3%
FY2025	172	100	72	58.1%	41.9%

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