Southern 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: 272
Noncitizens, FY2025: 3%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 226
Detained, FY2025: 52.7%

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	84%229	229
Prison and alternatives	1%2	2
Probation and alternatives	<1%1	1
Probation only	15%40	40

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 48 months (mean 78) for the 231 sentenced to prison, 2 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	29%80	80
Firearms	24%65	65
Other	21%57	57
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	8%21	21
Child Pornography	3%7	7
Sex Abuse	2%6	6
Assault	2%5	5
Robbery	2%5	5
Immigration	2%4	4
Tax	2%4	4
Stalking/Harassing	1%3	3
Administration of Justice	1%2	2
Antitrust	1%2	2
Arson	1%2	2
Drug Possession	1%2	2
Money Launder	1%2	2
Murder	1%2	2
Individual Rights	<1%1	1
National Defense	<1%1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%1	1

All 272 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	120	177	139	119	211	143	163	80
Firearms	103	115	99	94	99	87	68	65
Other	62	40	23	88	57	45	62	57
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	35	36	27	34	36	43	24	21
Immigration	72	57	36	18	11	7	4	4
Child Pornography	10	7	9	9	11	10	3	7
Sex Abuse	5	4	16	7	15	6	7	6
Robbery	7	9	5	9	3	5	5	5
Prison Offenses	4	2	17	7	4	2	1	0
Bribery/Corruption	8	4	14	7	1	1	0	0
Drug Possession	9	3	3	6	8	4	0	2
Administration of Justice	3	5	1	4	7	3	8	2
Commercialized Vice	0	1	0	21	5	0	5	0
Money Launder	5	6	5	3	7	3	1	2
Assault	6	0	4	3	3	4	2	5
Tax	0	1	3	2	5	2	4	4
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	6	4	2	5	1	1	0	1
Stalking/Harassing	1	0	1	0	5	0	1	3
Murder	0	0	0	2	3	3	0	2
National Defense	1	1	1	1	3	0	1	1
Arson	0	0	1	1	1	1	2	2
Individual Rights	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	1
Antitrust	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Burglary/Trespass	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
Extortion/Racketeering	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Environmental	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Food and Drug	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	462	474	408	443	500	371	367	272

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	83%225	225
Not a U.S. citizen	3%9	9
Citizenship not known	14%38	38

4 of the 272 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black, 6 placed by CrimeDB	50%136	136
White+MENA, 1 placed by CrimeDB	23%62	62
Hispanic	6%16	16
Race unknown	21%58	58

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 272 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 7 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	52%142	142
II	8%22	22
III	12%32	32
IV	7%18	18
V	9%24	24
VI	12%33	33
Category not known	<1%1	1

All 272 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	75%204	204
Above the range	3%9	9
Below the range, government-sponsored	17%45	45
Below the range, not government-sponsored	5%14	14

All 272 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	226	119	107	52.7%	47.3%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	219	112	107	51.1%	48.9%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	209	102	107	48.8%	51.2%

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 Georgia, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	290	242	12	36	8
FY2003	413	257	13	143	7
FY2004	390	234	20	136	11
FY2005	432	266	21	145	8
FY2006	504	248	24	232	10
FY2007	544	328	35	181	22
FY2008	517	349	27	141	10
FY2009	558	382	29	147	14
FY2010	710	501	40	169	22
FY2011	752	502	41	209	12
FY2012	527	302	36	189	8
FY2013	464	321	32	111	3
FY2014	639	403	49	187	7
FY2015	420	335	19	66	1
FY2016	404	323	18	63	2
FY2017	414	342	23	49	12
FY2018	462	329	88	45	72
FY2019	474	388	75	11	57
FY2020	408	345	43	20	36
FY2021	443	344	35	64	18
FY2022	500	440	23	37	11
FY2023	371	335	12	24	7
FY2024	367	321	11	35	4
FY2025	272	225	9	38	4

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 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	290	235	6	10	37	0	2	84%	0
FY2003*	413	261	7	12	106	24	3	65%	1
FY2004	390	242	5	13	102	27	1	63%	1
FY2005*	432	288	2	10	93	38	1	67%	0
FY2006	504	312	1	11	106	74	0	62%	1
FY2007	544	357	4	10	123	49	1	66%	1
FY2008*	517	376	1	9	107	24	0	73%	1
FY2009	558	388	3	11	119	37	0	70%	0
FY2010*	710	474	2	35	159	40	0	67%	0
FY2011	752	434	5	66	180	67	0	58%	1
FY2012	527	321	4	27	139	36	0	62%	0
FY2013	464	315	1	18	87	43	0	68%	2
FY2014	639	401	4	18	113	103	0	63%	3
FY2015	420	301	3	6	67	43	0	72%	2
FY2016	404	286	1	13	66	38	0	71%	1
FY2017	414	299	2	6	52	55	0	73%	0
FY2018	462	389	0	5	30	38	0	84%	0
FY2019*	474	430	1	9	28	6	0	91%	0
FY2020	408	360	5	6	34	3	0	89%	1
FY2021	443	347	5	4	53	34	0	79%	0
FY2022	500	416	7	5	63	9	0	85%	3
FY2023	371	297	2	7	55	10	0	81%	2
FY2024*	367	303	2	5	54	3	0	83%	1
FY2025	272	229	2	1	40	0	0	85%	2

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 Georgia, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	59	36	288	70	52	241
FY2003*	43	18	410	66	52	268
FY2004	38	14	387	60	41	245
FY2005*	50	21	430	74	57	287
FY2006	43	6	504	70	46	307
FY2007	47	16	544	71	48	360
FY2008*	54	30	517	74	50	377
FY2009	46	24	558	66	48	388
FY2010*	45	24	710	67	51	475
FY2011	37	12	752	63	44	439
FY2012	39	15	527	64	48	323
FY2013	58	27	464	86	60	314
FY2014	53	28	639	83	62	404
FY2015	55	34	420	77	53	302
FY2016	51	26	404	72	57	285
FY2017	48	32	414	66	48	301
FY2018	45	24	462	54	36	389
FY2019*	56	37	474	61	46	431
FY2020	61	42	408	68	50	365
FY2021	53	27	443	67	46	352
FY2022	60	36	500	71	46	423
FY2023	59	36	371	72	48	299
FY2024*	60	40	367	72	57	305
FY2025	66	40	272	78	48	231

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 Georgia by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	5	115	108	97	208	157	129	155
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	112	129	75	113	86	104	129	140
Firearms	61	57	56	77	78	107	115	104
Fraud	15	29	41	21	26	48	41	37
Larceny	23	17	29	39	36	29	21	22
Forgery/Counterfeiting	12	7	13	12	12	6	20	14
Immigration	8	7	11	8	10	22	10	14
Robbery	13	12	11	18	7	12	6	10
Drugs - Simple Possession	5	13	14	11	8	8	9	10
Pornography/Prostitution	1	4	4	5	10	5	15	12
Administration of Justice	2	1	4	5	5	17	6	8
Embezzlement	5	4	7	5	3	4	4	3
Assault	5	4	2	1	6	5	3	3
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	1	2	5	0	5	2	14
Racketeering/Extortion	9	3	1	4	3	3	3	2
Tax Offenses	5	2	2	1	2	7	0	3
Prison Offenses	4	3	1	5	0	1	1	0
Auto Theft	0	0	1	2	1	1	0	5
Money Laundering	3	0	4	2	0	1	0	0
Sexual Abuse	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0
Bribery	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Murder	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Arson	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Offense type not known	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	290	413	390	432	504	544	517	558

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 Georgia by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	216	279	194	131	203	101	97	90
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	201	153	118	103	119	59	99	107
Firearms	99	114	92	98	103	59	78	94
Fraud	58	49	42	34	81	96	34	38
Larceny	21	41	16	22	39	19	13	9
Drugs - Communication Facilities	23	17	5	9	12	19	14	17
Child Pornography	10	14	6	10	10	13	10	10
Drugs - Simple Possession	14	10	7	6	3	10	8	11
Immigration	22	12	8	3	7	1	2	12
Robbery	10	17	10	5	7	5	8	2
Administration of Justice	6	7	7	7	16	6	3	3
Forgery/Counterfeiting	6	19	14	7	2	2	1	4
Prison Offenses	9	5	0	4	2	5	20	1
Racketeering/Extortion	2	6	2	10	9	1	2	2
Assault	1	2	2	5	2	6	7	3
Money Laundering	0	3	1	2	9	4	0	1
Sexual Abuse	1	0	0	0	9	5	3	1
Embezzlement	5	1	1	1	2	2	2	2
Tax Offenses	2	2	1	0	2	1	0	0
Bribery	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	2
Civil Rights Offenses	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0
Arson	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
All offenses	710	752	527	464	639	420	404	414

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 Georgia by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	80	29%
Firearms	65	24%
Other	57	21%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	21	8%
Child Pornography	7	3%
Sex Abuse	6	2%
Assault	5	2%
Robbery	5	2%
Immigration	4	2%
Tax	4	2%
Stalking/Harassing	3	1%
Administration of Justice	2	1%
Antitrust	2	1%
Arson	2	1%
Drug Possession	2	1%
Money Launder	2	1%
Murder	2	1%
Individual Rights	1	<1%
National Defense	1	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	<1%

All 272 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 Georgia by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Black	136	6	50%
White+MENA	62	1	23%
Hispanic	16	0	6%
Race unknown	58	0	21%

All 272 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 7 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 Georgia by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	142	52%
II	22	8%
III	32	12%
IV	18	7%
V	24	9%
VI	33	12%
Category not known	1	<1%

All 272 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 Georgia against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	204	75%
Above the range	9	3%
Below the range, government-sponsored	45	17%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	14	5%

All 272 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 Georgia, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	351	195	156	55.6%	44.4%
FY2007	318	181	137	56.9%	43.1%
FY2008	419	211	208	50.4%	49.6%
FY2009	486	299	187	61.5%	38.5%
FY2010	441	231	210	52.4%	47.6%
FY2011	363	231	132	63.6%	36.4%
FY2012	271	158	113	58.3%	41.7%
FY2013	354	229	125	64.7%	35.3%
FY2014	365	184	181	50.4%	49.6%
FY2015	197	112	85	56.9%	43.1%
FY2016	310	214	96	69.0%	31.0%
FY2017	372	279	93	75.0%	25.0%
FY2018	344	268	76	77.9%	22.1%
FY2019	496	376	120	75.8%	24.2%
FY2020	307	192	115	62.5%	37.5%
FY2021	503	274	229	54.5%	45.5%
FY2022	214	99	115	46.3%	53.7%
FY2023	298	150	148	50.3%	49.7%
FY2024	153	79	74	51.6%	48.4%
FY2025	226	119	107	52.7%	47.3%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	341	185	156	54.3%	45.7%
FY2007	281	144	137	51.2%	48.8%
FY2008	412	204	208	49.5%	50.5%
FY2009	473	286	187	60.5%	39.5%
FY2010	432	222	210	51.4%	48.6%
FY2011	360	228	132	63.3%	36.7%
FY2012	268	155	113	57.8%	42.2%
FY2013	351	226	125	64.4%	35.6%
FY2014	363	183	180	50.4%	49.6%
FY2015	197	112	85	56.9%	43.1%
FY2016	309	213	96	68.9%	31.1%
FY2017	343	250	93	72.9%	27.1%
FY2018	271	195	76	72.0%	28.0%
FY2019	439	319	120	72.7%	27.3%
FY2020	282	167	115	59.2%	40.8%
FY2021	490	263	227	53.7%	46.3%
FY2022	206	91	115	44.2%	55.8%
FY2023	295	147	148	49.8%	50.2%
FY2024	150	76	74	50.7%	49.3%
FY2025	219	112	107	51.1%	48.9%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	204	91	113	44.6%	55.4%
FY2023	293	145	148	49.5%	50.5%
FY2024	148	74	74	50.0%	50.0%
FY2025	209	102	107	48.8%	51.2%

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