Northern District of Oklahoma

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 564
Noncitizens, FY2025: 26%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 500
Detained, FY2025: 64.6%

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	87%492	492
Prison and alternatives	2%12	12
Probation and alternatives	3%18	18
Probation only	7%39	39
Fine only	1%3	3

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 37 months (mean 68) for the 504 sentenced to prison, 5 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	20%114	114
Firearms	19%108	108
Immigration	17%95	95
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	10%56	56
Sex Abuse	7%37	37
Assault	6%36	36
Child Pornography	4%23	23
Robbery	4%22	22
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	3%15	15
Other	2%11	11
Manslaughter	2%9	9
Administration of Justice	1%7	7
Burglary/Trespass	1%7	7
Murder	1%7	7
Money Launder	1%4	4
Stalking/Harassing	1%4	4
Prison Offenses	1%3	3
Kidnapping	<1%2	2
Tax	<1%2	2
Arson	<1%1	1
Individual Rights	<1%1	1

All 564 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	69	57	69	74	96	80	168	114
Firearms	32	46	55	62	74	50	66	108
Immigration	30	29	30	21	13	66	78	95
Assault	2	6	2	34	81	51	67	36
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	19	28	26	26	27	24	62	56
Sex Abuse	8	11	9	18	27	31	47	37
Robbery	7	9	7	22	23	17	24	22
Child Pornography	10	7	11	13	13	4	14	23
Murder	0	0	1	9	13	14	34	7
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	0	7	8	10	6	9	10	15
Other	0	1	0	6	13	17	14	11
Administration of Justice	5	4	3	4	10	10	7	7
Manslaughter	0	0	0	4	8	3	10	9
Money Launder	7	0	5	9	2	0	5	4
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	1	4	10	2	7	7
Stalking/Harassing	1	2	1	4	6	7	3	4
Drug Possession	1	6	5	2	2	2	1	0
Kidnapping	0	1	1	2	6	4	2	2
Arson	0	1	0	1	1	3	9	1
Tax	1	1	2	1	1	1	4	2
Bribery/Corruption	0	0	0	0	4	3	2	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	0
Individual Rights	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1
Prison Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Food and Drug	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Commercialized Vice	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Environmental	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Extortion/Racketeering	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	195	217	240	328	439	400	636	564

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	74%417	417
Not a U.S. citizen	26%146	146
Citizenship not known	<1%1	1

95 of the 564 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Hispanic	31%176	176
White+MENA	28%161	161
AIAN	21%119	119
Black	17%93	93
Asian+NHPI	1%6	6
Race unknown	2%9	9

All 564 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.

People sentenced by criminal history category, FY2025

People sentenced by criminal history category, FY2025
I	48%271	271
II	15%87	87
III	17%95	95
IV	5%27	27
V	6%31	31
VI	9%51	51
Category not known	<1%2	2

All 564 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	57%319	319
Above the range	5%26	26
Below the range, government-sponsored	22%126	126
Below the range, not government-sponsored	16%92	92
Not known or not comparable	<1%1	1

All 564 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	500	323	177	64.6%	35.4%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	384	209	175	54.4%	45.6%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	339	165	174	48.7%	51.3%

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 Northern District of Oklahoma, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	153	124	27	2	7
FY2003	174	156	17	1	6
FY2004	189	170	15	4	3
FY2005	202	180	20	2	3
FY2006	202	186	16	0	0
FY2007	231	205	26	0	8
FY2008	214	169	45	0	11
FY2009	218	185	31	2	8
FY2010	155	130	25	0	10
FY2011	197	136	61	0	38
FY2012	203	163	40	0	28
FY2013	250	169	81	0	47
FY2014	251	170	81	0	44
FY2015	186	129	57	0	37
FY2016	213	172	40	1	23
FY2017	168	140	28	0	23
FY2018	195	145	50	0	30
FY2019	217	175	42	0	29
FY2020	240	183	57	0	30
FY2021	328	275	53	0	21
FY2022	439	392	47	0	13
FY2023	400	292	108	0	66
FY2024	636	476	160	0	78
FY2025	564	417	146	1	95

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 Oklahoma, 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	153	119	2	10	16	6	0	79%	1
FY2003*	174	139	3	6	21	2	3	83%	4
FY2004	189	145	6	11	24	2	1	80%	1
FY2005*	202	159	11	14	14	4	0	84%	2
FY2006	202	171	2	9	19	1	0	86%	3
FY2007	231	180	5	28	14	4	0	80%	2
FY2008*	214	179	6	16	12	1	0	86%	2
FY2009	218	174	6	17	21	0	0	83%	1
FY2010*	155	122	6	16	11	0	0	83%	0
FY2011	197	149	9	20	16	3	0	80%	1
FY2012	203	165	5	15	17	1	0	84%	0
FY2013	250	201	1	24	21	3	0	81%	0
FY2014	251	196	9	25	18	3	0	82%	0
FY2015	186	142	11	15	18	0	0	82%	0
FY2016	213	148	8	22	27	8	0	73%	0
FY2017	168	113	8	20	25	2	0	72%	1
FY2018	195	126	33	22	13	1	0	82%	0
FY2019*	217	155	31	8	20	3	0	86%	0
FY2020	240	191	15	7	25	2	0	86%	1
FY2021	328	266	12	13	35	2	0	85%	1
FY2022	439	370	14	11	40	4	0	87%	5
FY2023	400	353	3	8	32	4	0	89%	11
FY2024*	636	564	8	15	45	4	0	90%	8
FY2025	564	492	12	18	39	3	0	89%	5

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 Oklahoma, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	54	30	153	67	46	121
FY2003*	72	37	171	86	51	142
FY2004	60	36	188	73	51	151
FY2005*	76	38	202	89	54	170
FY2006	78	51	202	91	60	173
FY2007	73	41	231	90	60	185
FY2008*	64	43	214	73	60	185
FY2009	68	48	218	81	60	180
FY2010*	56	32	155	68	41	127
FY2011	43	24	197	53	33	158
FY2012	53	33	203	63	41	170
FY2013	53	24	250	65	37	200
FY2014	41	24	251	51	37	197
FY2015	38	18	186	47	30	147
FY2016	40	15	213	56	36	148
FY2017	43	16	168	64	33	112
FY2018	49	24	195	59	36	159
FY2019*	56	24	217	65	31	186
FY2020	49	24	240	57	33	206
FY2021	56	30	328	66	40	278
FY2022	63	36	439	71	41	384
FY2023	65	24	400	73	33	356
FY2024*	73	36	636	80	48	572
FY2025	61	30	564	68	37	504

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 Oklahoma by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Firearms	29	45	52	63	70	69	68	79
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	40	38	34	54	49	41	50	55
Fraud	27	23	33	31	24	50	30	22
Larceny	7	21	9	16	15	8	11	8
Robbery	2	9	10	5	6	10	5	3
Embezzlement	6	6	3	1	15	10	3	5
Pornography/Prostitution	3	7	4	3	4	7	9	12
Immigration	7	6	3	3	0	8	11	8
Forgery/Counterfeiting	5	3	9	4	6	5	4	6
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	3	2	7	4	0	4	3	4
Tax Offenses	1	0	7	2	5	3	7	1
Administration of Justice	7	3	0	7	1	2	0	2
Racketeering/Extortion	4	1	1	4	3	7	2	0
Sexual Abuse	0	4	3	0	0	1	2	3
Drugs - Communication Facilities	5	1	0	1	0	0	1	3
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	4	0	4	0	0	2	0	0
Money Laundering	0	3	3	0	0	0	1	3
Assault	0	0	2	1	2	1	2	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	4	0	0	1	1	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	2
Civil Rights Offenses	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Prison Offenses	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1
Bribery	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Arson	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All offenses	153	174	189	202	202	231	214	218

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 Oklahoma by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	32	49	54	59	66	49	64	35
Firearms	52	40	57	53	42	27	26	25
Immigration	10	38	28	47	44	37	23	23
Fraud	14	25	14	23	25	14	24	19
Larceny	7	10	16	9	15	5	7	10
Child Pornography	9	3	6	8	8	5	11	8
Administration of Justice	3	2	6	10	4	9	8	5
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	2	3	2	13	6	10	8	3
Embezzlement	5	6	2	3	7	5	5	4
Drugs - Communication Facilities	1	2	1	1	6	6	9	9
Forgery/Counterfeiting	4	7	1	1	8	2	4	1
Robbery	1	7	7	3	1	3	2	3
Assault	1	1	2	2	5	4	3	1
Sexual Abuse	0	0	0	1	4	2	3	9
Money Laundering	3	0	0	4	2	3	1	4
Racketeering/Extortion	0	0	0	6	4	1	4	2
Tax Offenses	7	2	2	1	0	0	3	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	2	0	2	0	3	1	4	2
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	0	1	4	1	0	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	3
Bribery	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	0
Arson	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Civil Rights Offenses	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Murder	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	155	197	203	250	251	186	213	168

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 Oklahoma by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	114	20%
Firearms	108	19%
Immigration	95	17%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	56	10%
Sex Abuse	37	7%
Assault	36	6%
Child Pornography	23	4%
Robbery	22	4%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	15	3%
Other	11	2%
Manslaughter	9	2%
Administration of Justice	7	1%
Burglary/Trespass	7	1%
Murder	7	1%
Money Launder	4	1%
Stalking/Harassing	4	1%
Prison Offenses	3	1%
Kidnapping	2	<1%
Tax	2	<1%
Arson	1	<1%
Individual Rights	1	<1%

All 564 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 Oklahoma by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Share
Hispanic	176	31%
White+MENA	161	28%
AIAN	119	21%
Black	93	17%
Asian+NHPI	6	1%
Race unknown	9	2%

All 564 people sentenced.

Hispanic is of any race; the other groups are not Hispanic. White+MENA includes Middle Eastern and North African people.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

People sentenced in the Northern District of Oklahoma by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	271	48%
II	87	15%
III	95	17%
IV	27	5%
V	31	6%
VI	51	9%
Category not known	2	<1%

All 564 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 Oklahoma against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	319	57%
Above the range	26	5%
Below the range, government-sponsored	126	22%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	92	16%
Not known or not comparable	1	<1%

All 564 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 Oklahoma, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	181	82	99	45.3%	54.7%
FY2007	210	114	96	54.3%	45.7%
FY2008	287	153	134	53.3%	46.7%
FY2009	193	97	96	50.3%	49.7%
FY2010	232	135	97	58.2%	41.8%
FY2011	209	91	118	43.5%	56.5%
FY2012	234	115	119	49.1%	50.9%
FY2013	265	129	136	48.7%	51.3%
FY2014	260	121	139	46.5%	53.5%
FY2015	199	98	101	49.2%	50.8%
FY2016	164	76	88	46.3%	53.7%
FY2017	137	79	58	57.7%	42.3%
FY2018	200	97	103	48.5%	51.5%
FY2019	314	177	137	56.4%	43.6%
FY2020	287	178	109	62.0%	38.0%
FY2021	652	450	202	69.0%	31.0%
FY2022	540	335	205	62.0%	38.0%
FY2023	500	324	176	64.8%	35.2%
FY2024	467	295	172	63.2%	36.8%
FY2025	500	323	177	64.6%	35.4%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	181	82	99	45.3%	54.7%
FY2007	207	111	96	53.6%	46.4%
FY2008	276	142	134	51.4%	48.6%
FY2009	184	89	95	48.4%	51.6%
FY2010	201	105	96	52.2%	47.8%
FY2011	186	68	118	36.6%	63.4%
FY2012	194	75	119	38.7%	61.3%
FY2013	234	98	136	41.9%	58.1%
FY2014	213	74	139	34.7%	65.3%
FY2015	164	63	101	38.4%	61.6%
FY2016	141	53	88	37.6%	62.4%
FY2017	112	54	58	48.2%	51.8%
FY2018	176	73	103	41.5%	58.5%
FY2019	281	144	137	51.2%	48.8%
FY2020	261	152	109	58.2%	41.8%
FY2021	629	427	202	67.9%	32.1%
FY2022	510	305	205	59.8%	40.2%
FY2023	429	256	173	59.7%	40.3%
FY2024	388	217	171	55.9%	44.1%
FY2025	384	209	175	54.4%	45.6%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	474	271	203	57.2%	42.8%
FY2023	365	195	170	53.4%	46.6%
FY2024	339	169	170	49.9%	50.1%
FY2025	339	165	174	48.7%	51.3%

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