Southern District of Indiana

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 356
Noncitizens, FY2025: 14%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 318
Detained, FY2025: 70.1%

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	96%340	340
Prison and alternatives	1%5	5
Probation and alternatives	1%2	2
Probation only	3%9	9

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 80 months (mean 111) for the 345 sentenced to prison, 3 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	41%145	145
Firearms	24%86	86
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	8%27	27
Robbery	6%21	21
Immigration	5%19	19
Money Launder	3%10	10
Sex Abuse	3%10	10
Commercialized Vice	2%8	8
Child Pornography	2%7	7
Murder	2%6	6
Prison Offenses	2%6	6
Administration of Justice	1%2	2
Individual Rights	1%2	2
Tax	1%2	2
Arson	<1%1	1
Assault	<1%1	1
Extortion/Racketeering	<1%1	1
Manslaughter	<1%1	1
Stalking/Harassing	<1%1	1

All 356 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	135	143	227	145	174	161	163	145
Firearms	84	116	149	131	183	93	52	86
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	43	38	27	29	33	40	30	27
Robbery	43	27	21	20	28	15	34	21
Child Pornography	21	25	29	17	31	32	13	7
Sex Abuse	14	23	24	23	27	16	17	10
Money Launder	20	22	11	19	13	12	15	10
Immigration	18	40	14	9	1	3	11	19
Prison Offenses	10	11	19	10	6	5	2	6
Administration of Justice	6	7	2	2	1	3	1	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	3	4	3	1	5	1	2	0
Tax	4	4	0	3	2	1	0	2
Murder	1	2	1	0	1	3	1	6
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	5	1	3	1	0	0	1	0
Stalking/Harassing	1	1	1	1	2	1	3	1
Commercialized Vice	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8
Individual Rights	2	0	0	0	1	3	0	2
Bribery/Corruption	0	1	1	0	2	0	3	0
Assault	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	1
Arson	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1
Environmental	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	0
Extortion/Racketeering	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1
Kidnapping	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0
National Defense	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0
Other	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	0
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Food and Drug	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
All offenses	414	472	537	413	515	393	352	356

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	86%307	307
Not a U.S. citizen	14%49	49
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

19 of the 356 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black, 1 placed by CrimeDB	50%178	178
White+MENA	31%110	110
Hispanic	17%60	60
Asian+NHPI	1%3	3
AIAN	<1%1	1
Race unknown	1%4	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 356 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	32%115	115
II	15%55	55
III	15%55	55
IV	10%37	37
V	10%36	36
VI	16%58	58

All 356 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	49%175	175
Above the range	3%11	11
Below the range, government-sponsored	21%76	76
Below the range, not government-sponsored	26%94	94

All 356 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	318	223	95	70.1%	29.9%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	288	193	95	67.0%	33.0%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	271	178	93	65.7%	34.3%

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 Southern District of Indiana, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	240	197	36	7	14
FY2003	278	245	29	4	9
FY2004	318	254	55	9	9
FY2005	301	268	28	5	9
FY2006	315	247	65	3	11
FY2007	314	239	73	2	12
FY2008	295	246	47	2	7
FY2009	233	189	42	2	7
FY2010	331	263	66	2	13
FY2011	289	210	76	3	30
FY2012	433	306	126	1	26
FY2013	385	310	74	1	23
FY2014	394	346	44	4	14
FY2015	375	326	49	0	15
FY2016	330	279	51	0	15
FY2017	423	355	68	0	19
FY2018	414	352	61	1	18
FY2019	472	388	84	0	40
FY2020	537	475	62	0	14
FY2021	413	383	30	0	9
FY2022	515	500	15	0	1
FY2023	393	373	20	0	3
FY2024	352	318	34	0	11
FY2025	356	307	49	0	19

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 Indiana, 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	240	192	14	22	11	0	1	86%	2
FY2003*	278	247	12	6	10	0	3	94%	3
FY2004	318	265	14	22	14	3	0	88%	1
FY2005*	301	254	12	13	21	1	0	88%	2
FY2006	315	275	14	9	17	0	0	92%	5
FY2007	314	285	8	10	10	1	0	93%	4
FY2008*	295	268	6	10	11	0	0	93%	1
FY2009	233	210	8	11	4	0	0	94%	8
FY2010*	331	282	10	24	15	0	0	88%	3
FY2011	289	240	12	20	17	0	0	87%	6
FY2012	433	375	19	12	23	4	0	91%	1
FY2013	385	305	11	24	44	1	0	82%	2
FY2014	394	326	12	21	30	5	0	86%	1
FY2015	375	315	19	16	25	0	0	89%	5
FY2016	330	272	15	16	27	0	0	87%	3
FY2017	423	374	13	15	21	0	0	91%	2
FY2018	414	373	9	10	22	0	0	92%	3
FY2019*	472	452	5	5	10	0	0	97%	4
FY2020	537	509	9	6	13	0	0	96%	2
FY2021	413	390	3	7	13	0	0	95%	0
FY2022	515	496	4	1	14	0	0	97%	1
FY2023	393	372	3	1	16	1	0	95%	0
FY2024*	352	340	3	2	7	0	0	97%	2
FY2025	356	340	5	2	9	0	0	97%	3

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 Indiana, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	79	46	239	90	60	206
FY2003*	89	51	275	95	57	259
FY2004	78	56	318	89	63	279
FY2005*	82	46	301	93	60	266
FY2006	87	57	315	94	60	289
FY2007	97	60	314	103	66	293
FY2008*	103	87	295	110	97	274
FY2009	106	70	233	112	75	218
FY2010*	104	63	331	117	84	292
FY2011	98	60	289	111	78	251
FY2012	78	48	433	87	60	385
FY2013	75	48	385	91	63	315
FY2014	70	43	394	82	60	334
FY2015	84	57	375	95	60	327
FY2016	80	51	329	93	60	281
FY2017	84	60	423	93	70	380
FY2018	92	60	414	100	70	382
FY2019*	87	57	472	90	60	457
FY2020	98	68	537	101	71	518
FY2021	87	60	413	91	60	393
FY2022	101	61	515	104	66	500
FY2023	108	87	393	113	96	375
FY2024*	114	84	352	117	87	343
FY2025	108	74	356	111	80	345

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 Indiana by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	94	132	146	154	147	177	177	117
Firearms	21	43	59	44	37	32	26	24
Fraud	44	30	36	24	44	29	29	23
Pornography/Prostitution	3	10	10	15	17	9	11	24
Immigration	14	9	9	9	11	12	7	7
Larceny	9	4	8	7	8	1	5	8
Money Laundering	7	6	10	7	3	12	1	2
Forgery/Counterfeiting	7	7	5	6	10	2	3	5
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	3	5	6	7	10	6	3	5
Embezzlement	5	8	9	3	6	2	10	1
Prison Offenses	4	7	4	8	2	9	5	3
Robbery	15	9	2	4	1	1	1	0
Tax Offenses	1	2	1	4	6	6	3	6
Administration of Justice	2	4	3	2	0	2	2	3
Assault	3	0	4	2	2	0	1	2
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	2	0	0	1	4	5	1
Antitrust Violations	0	0	2	1	4	3	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	3	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	2	0	0	1	0	0	3	0
Racketeering/Extortion	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	2
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0
Sexual Abuse	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	0
Auto Theft	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
Arson	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
All offenses	240	278	318	301	315	314	295	233

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 Indiana by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	137	131	158	126	112	131	119	144
Firearms	43	34	64	53	76	73	53	84
Fraud	30	28	60	72	65	47	54	64
Child Pornography	37	18	38	39	41	34	29	36
Immigration	13	30	26	23	14	15	15	19
Prison Offenses	14	10	12	5	13	14	8	7
Racketeering/Extortion	1	0	7	14	12	1	5	19
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	4	6	10	6	16	5	7	3
Larceny	12	4	10	5	5	6	9	4
Administration of Justice	2	5	8	7	9	7	10	5
Drugs - Communication Facilities	2	8	6	9	7	9	1	3
Money Laundering	10	3	8	4	4	6	3	2
Tax Offenses	6	1	2	2	4	4	6	12
Robbery	4	1	5	5	3	11	2	5
Embezzlement	5	2	1	5	3	2	1	2
Assault	2	2	3	2	1	3	1	1
Sexual Abuse	0	1	5	0	0	2	3	4
Forgery/Counterfeiting	4	1	1	1	0	2	1	3
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	1	2	4	1	3	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	5	3	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	5
Civil Rights Offenses	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Arson	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Bribery	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
Murder	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
All offenses	331	289	433	385	394	375	330	423

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 Indiana by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	145	41%
Firearms	86	24%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	27	8%
Robbery	21	6%
Immigration	19	5%
Money Launder	10	3%
Sex Abuse	10	3%
Commercialized Vice	8	2%
Child Pornography	7	2%
Murder	6	2%
Prison Offenses	6	2%
Administration of Justice	2	1%
Individual Rights	2	1%
Tax	2	1%
Arson	1	<1%
Assault	1	<1%
Extortion/Racketeering	1	<1%
Manslaughter	1	<1%
Stalking/Harassing	1	<1%

All 356 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 Indiana by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Black	178	1	50%
White+MENA	110	0	31%
Hispanic	60	0	17%
Asian+NHPI	3	0	1%
AIAN	1	0	<1%
Race unknown	4	0	1%

All 356 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 Indiana by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	115	32%
II	55	15%
III	55	15%
IV	37	10%
V	36	10%
VI	58	16%

All 356 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 Indiana against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	175	49%
Above the range	11	3%
Below the range, government-sponsored	76	21%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	94	26%

All 356 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 Indiana, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	368	212	156	57.6%	42.4%
FY2007	320	210	110	65.6%	34.4%
FY2008	302	203	99	67.2%	32.8%
FY2009	274	166	108	60.6%	39.4%
FY2010	353	223	130	63.2%	36.8%
FY2011	433	295	138	68.1%	31.9%
FY2012	409	251	158	61.4%	38.6%
FY2013	462	240	222	51.9%	48.1%
FY2014	393	241	152	61.3%	38.7%
FY2015	345	217	128	62.9%	37.1%
FY2016	436	277	159	63.5%	36.5%
FY2017	360	232	128	64.4%	35.6%
FY2018	574	405	169	70.6%	29.4%
FY2019	582	393	189	67.5%	32.5%
FY2020	480	311	169	64.8%	35.2%
FY2021	504	346	158	68.7%	31.3%
FY2022	381	259	122	68.0%	32.0%
FY2023	256	182	74	71.1%	28.9%
FY2024	316	232	84	73.4%	26.6%
FY2025	318	223	95	70.1%	29.9%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	361	205	156	56.8%	43.2%
FY2007	305	195	110	63.9%	36.1%
FY2008	293	194	99	66.2%	33.8%
FY2009	262	154	108	58.8%	41.2%
FY2010	332	202	130	60.8%	39.2%
FY2011	402	264	138	65.7%	34.3%
FY2012	392	234	158	59.7%	40.3%
FY2013	442	220	222	49.8%	50.2%
FY2014	373	222	151	59.5%	40.5%
FY2015	334	206	128	61.7%	38.3%
FY2016	419	260	159	62.1%	37.9%
FY2017	345	217	128	62.9%	37.1%
FY2018	549	380	169	69.2%	30.8%
FY2019	559	370	189	66.2%	33.8%
FY2020	468	299	169	63.9%	36.1%
FY2021	502	344	158	68.5%	31.5%
FY2022	378	256	122	67.7%	32.3%
FY2023	245	171	74	69.8%	30.2%
FY2024	311	227	84	73.0%	27.0%
FY2025	288	193	95	67.0%	33.0%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	364	242	122	66.5%	33.5%
FY2023	231	157	74	68.0%	32.0%
FY2024	298	214	84	71.8%	28.2%
FY2025	271	178	93	65.7%	34.3%

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