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Southern District of Florida

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

People sentenced, FY2025
1,457
Noncitizens, FY2025
52%
Pretrial cases, FY2025
1,511
Detained, FY2025
65.3%

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

people sentenced each year, from U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB
  • 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 only93%1,355
Prison and alternatives3%39
Probation and alternatives2%28
Probation only2%35

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 28 months (mean 55) for the 1,394 sentenced to prison, 12 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

percent sentenced to prison each year, from U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB

Median prison term in months, FY2002 to FY2025

months, median each year, from U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB
  • 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
Immigration30%440
Drug Trafficking22%315
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement15%220
Firearms10%145
Money Launder7%94
Child Pornography4%54
Robbery3%49
Sex Abuse2%32
Tax1%20
Stalking/Harassing1%14
Administration of Justice1%12
National Defense1%12
Assault1%10
Murder1%9
Bribery/Corruption1%8
Kidnapping<1%4
Environmental<1%3
Food and Drug<1%3
Prison Offenses<1%3
Arson<1%2
Extortion/Racketeering<1%2
Individual Rights<1%2
Burglary/Trespass<1%1
Commercialized Vice<1%1
Manslaughter<1%1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses<1%1

All 1,457 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

People sentenced in the Southern District of Florida by offense, FY2018 to FY2025

OffenseFY2018FY2019*FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024*FY2025
Drug Trafficking514452359256462415317315
Immigration653545312116273332338440
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement535418292186422299288220
Firearms16819512192229174126145
Money Launder8279505661705494
Robbery7771513067455949
Child Pornography3344191838494554
Sex Abuse2419171250344232
Bribery/Corruption41283492826208
Tax142311427211720
Administration of Justice2024571215812
Environmental15511371893
Stalking/Harassing101010658814
National Defense1476597612
Assault524144710
Murder26042959
Kidnapping014156124
Forgery/Counter/Copyright177301210
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses68605411
Other67501260
Prison Offenses14414613
Extortion/Racketeering510010102
Individual Rights16121102
Food and Drug40002213
Commercialized Vice03031011
Burglary/Trespass23000111
Arson11000032
Manslaughter03002011
Antitrust05100000
Drug Possession11001100
All offenses2,2511,9871,3268131,7191,5521,3771,457

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. citizen48%693
Not a U.S. citizen52%761
Citizenship not known<1%3

440 of the 1,457 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Hispanic, 11 placed by CrimeDB58%839
Black, 1 placed by CrimeDB29%421
White+MENAMiddle Eastern or North African, 2 placed by CrimeDB12%172
Asian+NHPINative Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander1%19
AIANAmerican Indian or Alaska Native<1%2
Race unknown<1%4
  • 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 1,457 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 14 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
I62%905
II14%205
III9%128
IV4%60
V2%33
VI5%68
Category not known4%58

All 1,457 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 range56%814
Above the range3%44
Below the range, government-sponsored11%157
Below the range, not government-sponsored27%387
Not known or not comparable4%55

All 1,457 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

percent detained each year, from U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B

Pretrial release and detention, FY2025

Which casesTableCases openedDetainedReleasedDetained (%)Released (%)
All casesH-141,51198752465.3%34.7%
Excluding immigration casesH-14A1,15463252254.8%45.2%
Excluding illegal alien casesH-14B85935750241.6%58.4%

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 Southern District of Florida, by fiscal year

Fiscal yearPeople sentencedU.S. citizensNoncitizensCitizenship not knownImmigration offenses
FY20022,5531,1921,156205261
FY20032,3521,0721,089191450
FY20042,080982949149331
FY20052,3671,0781,128161601
FY20062,030960931139397
FY20072,3261,181994151428
FY20082,2731,0311,117125516
FY20092,4181,1961,14874620
FY20102,3551,1061,21633601
FY20112,1381,1181,00119461
FY20122,1751,16697930457
FY20132,4071,1701,20037632
FY20142,2611,2141,02522559
FY20152,2361,1451,07615580
FY20162,2341,1911,03112528
FY20172,3651,1451,20020544
FY20182,2511,0731,1699653
FY20191,9879929869545
FY20201,3266966228312
FY20218134433691116
FY20221,7199707445273
FY20231,5528187295332
FY20241,3777386345338
FY20251,4576937613440

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 Southern District of Florida, by fiscal year

Fiscal yearPeople sentencedPrison onlyPrison and alternativesProbation and alternativesProbation onlyFine onlyType not knownSentenced to prisonLife sentences
FY20022,5532,097601251201014189%16
FY2003*2,3521,9816892131265489%11
FY20042,0801,766648914910288%11
FY2005*2,3672,017101981422790%13
FY20062,0301,718619613941288%6
FY20072,3261,986761091522189%11
FY2008*2,2732,03462671091092%5
FY20092,4182,1808165901194%9
FY2010*2,3552,11110665730094%8
FY20112,1381,82913690830092%10
FY20122,1751,9319670771093%6
FY20132,4072,1758463832094%5
FY20142,2612,0437362830094%6
FY20152,2362,0027495650093%5
FY20162,2342,0756244503096%1
FY20172,3652,1189369850093%3
FY20182,2512,0216369980093%5
FY2019*1,9871,7966071600093%6
FY20201,3261,1914349430093%1
FY20218137253720301094%0
FY20221,7191,5556252500094%0
FY20231,5521,4216329390096%7
FY2024*1,3771,2434626620094%9
FY20251,4571,3553928350096%12

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 Southern District of Florida, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal yearSentence, meanSentence, medianPeople sentencedPrison term, meanPrison term, medianSentenced to prison
FY200258372,40965462,121
FY2003*55372,26664421,937
FY200457372,07666461,754
FY2005*54272,35764371,980
FY200659362,01669461,700
FY200759332,32569461,973
FY2008*58332,27366411,993
FY200955302,41762372,128
FY2010*52302,35457362,109
FY201153322,13859371,902
FY201252302,17556361,970
FY201350302,40756352,135
FY201453322,26158362,034
FY201549282,23655331,971
FY201652302,23457362,013
FY201751272,36557342,084
FY201848242,25152302,084
FY2019*47241,98750281,856
FY202046241,32649301,234
FY202154368135737762
FY202260361,71963411,617
FY202356321,55257361,484
FY2024*57301,37760351,289
FY202553241,45755281,394

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 Southern District of Florida by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

OffenseFY2002FY2003*FY2004FY2005*FY2006FY2007FY2008*FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing1,313995939850813824733670
Immigration261450331601397428516620
Fraud274274292281302469421512
Firearms115135115141116173197201
Money Laundering927577119678510067
Larceny4968455244483333
Forgery/Counterfeiting5250244026424642
Racketeering/Extortion3237194635393232
Administration of Justice4225443433352434
Pornography/Prostitution2334182533363959
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses3127252838273225
Robbery403517271616819
Tax Offenses2014383222171217
Embezzlement1914191213379
Assault8310141311913
Bribery1261512815102
Sexual Abuse14361151519
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses9255791312
Food and Drug Offenses88666163
Prison Offenses65285227
Drugs - Communication Facilities637111421
Drugs - Simple Possession23955605
Gambling/Lottery650012902
National Defense Offenses32815157
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking52000831
Civil Rights Offenses31182011
Auto Theft14114211
Murder33110123
Arson02314000
Antitrust Violations00100021
Burglary/Breaking and Entering00001010
Offense type not known11766501010
All offenses2,5532,3522,0802,3672,0302,3262,2732,418

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 Southern District of Florida by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

OffenseFY2010*FY2011FY2012FY2013FY2014FY2015FY2016FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing665642597565499493571648
Immigration601461457632559580528544
Fraud500524519579554545530606
Firearms195177188205245230228202
Money Laundering5157698283583742
Child Pornography4936464054344834
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses4037375229524641
Larceny4623374537253840
Robbery2325294028305542
Forgery/Counterfeiting3731411626141822
Racketeering/Extortion2914272417264021
Administration of Justice3221192224271718
Tax Offenses1528191713221112
Bribery81023282617915
Sexual Abuse810101511241523
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses98148161255
Assault11987139109
Food and Drug Offenses80769796
National Defense Offenses56872927
Embezzlement1431410317
Drugs - Simple Possession29421231
Auto Theft00424462
Prison Offenses30233023
Murder31142100
Arson31010211
Drugs - Communication Facilities40031001
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking31010102
Civil Rights Offenses10200121
Antitrust Violations01401000
Burglary/Breaking and Entering21000000
Gambling/Lottery01000100
Manslaughter10000000
All offenses2,3552,1382,1752,4072,2612,2362,2342,365

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 Southern District of Florida by offense, FY2025

OffensePeople sentencedShare
Immigration44030%
Drug Trafficking31522%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement22015%
Firearms14510%
Money Launder947%
Child Pornography544%
Robbery493%
Sex Abuse322%
Tax201%
Stalking/Harassing141%
Administration of Justice121%
National Defense121%
Assault101%
Murder91%
Bribery/Corruption81%
Kidnapping4<1%
Environmental3<1%
Food and Drug3<1%
Prison Offenses3<1%
Arson2<1%
Extortion/Racketeering2<1%
Individual Rights2<1%
Burglary/Trespass1<1%
Commercialized Vice1<1%
Manslaughter1<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses1<1%

All 1,457 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 Southern District of Florida by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic originPeople sentencedOf which placed by CrimeDBShare
Hispanic8391158%
Black421129%
White+MENA172212%
Asian+NHPI1901%
AIAN20<1%
Race unknown40<1%

All 1,457 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 14 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 Southern District of Florida by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history categoryPeople sentencedShare
I90562%
II20514%
III1289%
IV604%
V332%
VI685%
Category not known584%

All 1,457 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 Southern District of Florida against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline rangePeople sentencedShare
Within the range81456%
Above the range443%
Below the range, government-sponsored15711%
Below the range, not government-sponsored38727%
Not known or not comparable554%

All 1,457 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 Southern District of Florida, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal yearCases openedDetainedReleasedDetained (%)Released (%)
FY20062,1871,32086760.4%39.6%
FY20072,5771,4531,12456.4%43.6%
FY20082,6051,4521,15355.7%44.3%
FY20092,9001,6701,23057.6%42.4%
FY20102,8851,6461,23957.1%42.9%
FY20112,5601,4021,15854.8%45.2%
FY20122,4701,51295861.2%38.8%
FY20132,4851,59489164.1%35.9%
FY20142,2211,36485761.4%38.6%
FY20152,2831,44683763.3%36.7%
FY20162,3531,45689761.9%38.1%
FY20172,2431,46677765.4%34.6%
FY20182,3331,45887562.5%37.5%
FY20192,0131,32968466.0%34.0%
FY20201,26284741567.1%32.9%
FY20211,47782265555.7%44.3%
FY20221,50396753664.3%35.7%
FY20231,43888355561.4%38.6%
FY20241,40784955860.3%39.7%
FY20251,51198752465.3%34.7%

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

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

Fiscal yearCases openedDetainedReleasedDetained (%)Released (%)
FY20062,0891,23785259.2%40.8%
FY20072,4311,3151,11654.1%45.9%
FY20082,4611,3401,12154.4%45.6%
FY20092,6871,5201,16756.6%43.4%
FY20102,6031,4321,17155.0%45.0%
FY20112,3741,2441,13052.4%47.6%
FY20122,2451,29195457.5%42.5%
FY20132,1801,29288859.3%40.7%
FY20141,9331,07685755.7%44.3%
FY20151,9821,15682658.3%41.7%
FY20162,0471,15389456.3%43.7%
FY20171,8951,12077559.1%40.9%
FY20181,9521,08087255.3%44.7%
FY20191,61393168257.7%42.3%
FY20201,04463640860.9%39.1%
FY20211,36070965152.1%47.9%
FY20221,29075753358.7%41.3%
FY20231,18163254953.5%46.5%
FY20241,17061355752.4%47.6%
FY20251,15463252254.8%45.2%

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

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

Fiscal yearCases openedDetainedReleasedDetained (%)Released (%)
FY202299748651148.7%51.3%
FY202390638652042.6%57.4%
FY202493439653842.4%57.6%
FY202585935750241.6%58.4%

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