Southern District of Illinois

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 240
Noncitizens, FY2025: 10%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 231
Detained, FY2025: 57.6%

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	90%215	215
Prison and alternatives	<1%1	1
Probation and alternatives	3%6	6
Probation only	8%18	18

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 60 months (mean 82) for the 216 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
Drug Trafficking	38%92	92
Firearms	21%50	50
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	14%33	33
Immigration	6%14	14
Money Launder	4%10	10
Prison Offenses	4%10	10
Child Pornography	3%7	7
Environmental	3%6	6
Sex Abuse	2%5	5
Robbery	1%3	3
Administration of Justice	1%2	2
Arson	1%2	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1%2	2
Assault	<1%1	1
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	<1%1	1
Other	<1%1	1
Stalking/Harassing	<1%1	1

All 240 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	106	94	107	77	109	121	94	92
Firearms	55	58	41	50	55	38	35	50
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	29	30	19	21	22	21	28	33
Sex Abuse	4	11	6	18	32	31	19	5
Immigration	17	34	17	3	5	6	5	14
Child Pornography	12	12	7	12	12	11	8	7
Robbery	6	16	19	14	7	5	8	3
Money Launder	2	4	3	5	9	9	3	10
Prison Offenses	6	6	4	8	1	1	8	10
Other	7	6	1	2	2	0	0	1
Administration of Justice	4	4	2	1	1	0	0	2
Stalking/Harassing	2	2	1	1	1	2	4	1
Assault	2	3	1	1	1	1	2	1
Environmental	1	0	3	1	0	0	1	6
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	3	4	1	1	0	1	1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	0	0	2	2	2	2	2	2
Murder	1	0	0	0	1	9	0	0
Tax	4	1	0	2	1	0	0	0
Individual Rights	1	1	0	0	0	1	3	0
Arson	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Bribery/Corruption	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Commercialized Vice	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Food and Drug	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All offenses	266	286	234	221	261	261	224	240

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	90%215	215
Not a U.S. citizen	10%25	25
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

14 of the 240 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black	50%120	120
White+MENA, 1 placed by CrimeDB	38%90	90
Hispanic	11%27	27
Asian+NHPI	1%3	3

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 240 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	39%94	94
II	14%34	34
III	17%41	41
IV	10%24	24
V	9%22	22
VI	10%25	25

All 240 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	61%146	146
Above the range	6%15	15
Below the range, government-sponsored	14%34	34
Below the range, not government-sponsored	19%45	45

All 240 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	231	133	98	57.6%	42.4%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	210	112	98	53.3%	46.7%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	210	112	98	53.3%	46.7%

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 Illinois, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	294	277	15	2	15
FY2003	352	322	26	4	22
FY2004	314	277	33	4	15
FY2005	270	247	19	4	15
FY2006	374	336	35	3	18
FY2007	344	298	41	5	24
FY2008	312	273	36	3	19
FY2009	314	272	41	1	25
FY2010	318	275	41	2	25
FY2011	345	302	41	2	25
FY2012	413	328	83	2	56
FY2013	433	378	54	1	40
FY2014	373	351	22	0	11
FY2015	398	376	22	0	11
FY2016	317	293	24	0	6
FY2017	266	246	20	0	11
FY2018	266	232	34	0	17
FY2019	286	244	41	1	34
FY2020	234	200	33	1	17
FY2021	221	212	8	1	3
FY2022	261	251	10	0	5
FY2023	261	251	10	0	6
FY2024	224	213	11	0	5
FY2025	240	215	25	0	14

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 Illinois, 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	294	267	4	8	13	2	0	92%	5
FY2003*	352	308	12	9	21	1	1	91%	1
FY2004	314	284	5	8	15	2	0	92%	0
FY2005*	270	245	3	7	14	0	1	92%	0
FY2006	374	333	5	14	20	2	0	90%	1
FY2007	344	312	4	11	16	0	1	92%	2
FY2008*	312	294	4	6	8	0	0	96%	4
FY2009	314	290	3	4	16	1	0	93%	9
FY2010*	318	296	5	7	10	0	0	95%	1
FY2011	345	311	8	10	16	0	0	92%	4
FY2012	413	389	8	3	13	0	0	96%	0
FY2013	433	364	11	19	39	0	0	87%	1
FY2014	373	317	12	15	29	0	0	88%	0
FY2015	398	344	17	9	28	0	0	91%	1
FY2016	317	266	9	8	34	0	0	87%	0
FY2017	266	227	3	11	25	0	0	86%	2
FY2018	266	237	7	9	13	0	0	92%	0
FY2019*	286	252	5	7	22	0	0	90%	1
FY2020	234	216	2	2	14	0	0	93%	0
FY2021	221	198	2	4	17	0	0	90%	0
FY2022	261	242	1	5	13	0	0	93%	0
FY2023	261	236	3	1	21	0	0	92%	4
FY2024*	224	201	1	1	21	0	0	90%	0
FY2025	240	215	1	6	18	0	0	90%	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 Southern District of Illinois, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	104	81	294	113	96	271
FY2003*	84	60	351	93	71	316
FY2004	83	60	314	89	66	289
FY2005*	92	60	269	100	70	248
FY2006	103	70	373	114	87	337
FY2007	123	120	343	133	120	315
FY2008*	107	79	312	113	87	295
FY2009	107	70	314	116	78	290
FY2010*	87	60	318	93	63	299
FY2011	86	60	345	98	63	303
FY2012	77	48	413	80	54	394
FY2013	63	42	433	73	52	372
FY2014	72	48	373	81	60	326
FY2015	69	51	398	77	57	356
FY2016	71	54	317	82	60	274
FY2017	80	51	266	94	70	225
FY2018	79	60	266	86	60	244
FY2019*	84	60	286	93	70	257
FY2020	81	60	234	87	66	218
FY2021	82	70	221	90	72	200
FY2022	97	78	261	104	87	243
FY2023	108	84	261	118	96	239
FY2024*	82	60	224	91	71	202
FY2025	74	54	240	82	60	216

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 Illinois by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	178	187	186	142	191	202	174	152
Firearms	34	41	51	40	51	36	37	39
Fraud	19	41	32	30	53	32	19	39
Immigration	15	22	15	15	18	24	19	25
Pornography/Prostitution	4	10	1	3	9	9	18	18
Robbery	8	8	6	3	7	6	9	5
Forgery/Counterfeiting	8	11	3	1	5	5	9	2
Prison Offenses	5	7	4	4	6	4	4	4
Larceny	5	3	4	8	3	5	4	5
Administration of Justice	2	6	2	4	6	1	2	2
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	2	3	2	3	7	5	1	2
Embezzlement	1	1	2	1	3	4	3	4
Tax Offenses	4	1	1	0	4	1	5	3
Assault	2	2	2	3	3	2	3	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	1	1	0	2	2	1	1	1
Money Laundering	2	0	1	2	0	2	2	0
Sexual Abuse	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	5
Arson	0	1	1	1	4	0	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	3
Bribery	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	1
Auto Theft	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Murder	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Food and Drug Offenses	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Racketeering/Extortion	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Offense type not known	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	294	352	314	270	374	344	312	314

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 Illinois by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	146	145	147	154	159	184	161	101
Firearms	46	63	88	88	62	62	47	56
Fraud	31	34	46	56	41	77	34	37
Immigration	25	25	56	40	11	11	6	11
Child Pornography	19	22	24	20	27	12	15	19
Administration of Justice	5	5	10	8	13	12	7	6
Tax Offenses	6	17	4	21	1	0	4	2
Prison Offenses	3	2	7	3	2	4	8	13
Embezzlement	1	1	1	20	13	4	0	0
Robbery	3	3	2	3	9	11	5	4
Forgery/Counterfeiting	7	9	3	2	7	1	7	1
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	4	5	4	5	5	5	5	4
Larceny	4	2	6	5	6	4	4	1
Sexual Abuse	1	1	4	3	1	2	4	2
Assault	3	3	1	2	0	1	3	4
Racketeering/Extortion	0	2	1	0	6	5	0	0
Money Laundering	0	0	1	1	2	1	4	3
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	2	0	1	1	0	1	3	1
Gambling/Lottery	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
Antitrust Violations	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
Auto Theft	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bribery	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	318	345	413	433	373	398	317	266

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 Illinois by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	92	38%
Firearms	50	21%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	33	14%
Immigration	14	6%
Money Launder	10	4%
Prison Offenses	10	4%
Child Pornography	7	3%
Environmental	6	3%
Sex Abuse	5	2%
Robbery	3	1%
Administration of Justice	2	1%
Arson	2	1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	1%
Assault	1	<1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1	<1%
Other	1	<1%
Stalking/Harassing	1	<1%

All 240 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 Illinois by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Black	120	0	50%
White+MENA	90	1	38%
Hispanic	27	0	11%
Asian+NHPI	3	0	1%

All 240 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 Southern District of Illinois by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	94	39%
II	34	14%
III	41	17%
IV	24	10%
V	22	9%
VI	25	10%

All 240 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 Illinois against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	146	61%
Above the range	15	6%
Below the range, government-sponsored	34	14%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	45	19%

All 240 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 Illinois, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	305	144	161	47.2%	52.8%
FY2007	350	179	171	51.1%	48.9%
FY2008	291	171	120	58.8%	41.2%
FY2009	280	161	119	57.5%	42.5%
FY2010	294	174	120	59.2%	40.8%
FY2011	413	227	186	55.0%	45.0%
FY2012	446	243	203	54.5%	45.5%
FY2013	458	252	206	55.0%	45.0%
FY2014	368	181	187	49.2%	50.8%
FY2015	329	194	135	59.0%	41.0%
FY2016	227	126	101	55.5%	44.5%
FY2017	252	156	96	61.9%	38.1%
FY2018	264	154	110	58.3%	41.7%
FY2019	312	191	121	61.2%	38.8%
FY2020	288	183	105	63.5%	36.5%
FY2021	269	129	140	48.0%	52.0%
FY2022	212	123	89	58.0%	42.0%
FY2023	221	103	118	46.6%	53.4%
FY2024	215	117	98	54.4%	45.6%
FY2025	231	133	98	57.6%	42.4%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	296	135	161	45.6%	54.4%
FY2007	321	150	171	46.7%	53.3%
FY2008	272	152	120	55.9%	44.1%
FY2009	254	135	119	53.1%	46.9%
FY2010	281	164	117	58.4%	41.6%
FY2011	384	199	185	51.8%	48.2%
FY2012	386	184	202	47.7%	52.3%
FY2013	433	227	206	52.4%	47.6%
FY2014	355	170	185	47.9%	52.1%
FY2015	313	179	134	57.2%	42.8%
FY2016	216	115	101	53.2%	46.8%
FY2017	238	143	95	60.1%	39.9%
FY2018	250	140	110	56.0%	44.0%
FY2019	282	161	121	57.1%	42.9%
FY2020	273	168	105	61.5%	38.5%
FY2021	266	126	140	47.4%	52.6%
FY2022	205	116	89	56.6%	43.4%
FY2023	215	98	117	45.6%	54.4%
FY2024	210	112	98	53.3%	46.7%
FY2025	210	112	98	53.3%	46.7%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	203	114	89	56.2%	43.8%
FY2023	210	93	117	44.3%	55.7%
FY2024	204	108	96	52.9%	47.1%
FY2025	210	112	98	53.3%	46.7%

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