Southern District of Mississippi

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 378
Noncitizens, FY2025: 22%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 380
Detained, FY2025: 72.1%

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	89%337	337
Prison and alternatives	1%4	4
Probation and alternatives	1%5	5
Probation only	8%32	32

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 41 months (mean 75) for the 341 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	32%121	121
Firearms	21%78	78
Immigration	17%65	65
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	15%55	55
Murder	2%9	9
Sex Abuse	2%9	9
Money Launder	1%5	5
Prison Offenses	1%5	5
Assault	1%4	4
Robbery	1%4	4
Administration of Justice	1%3	3
Child Pornography	1%3	3
Environmental	1%3	3
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1%3	3
Individual Rights	1%3	3
Bribery/Corruption	1%2	2
Burglary/Trespass	1%2	2
Tax	1%2	2
Food and Drug	<1%1	1
Stalking/Harassing	<1%1	1

All 378 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	133	122	91	75	107	128	113	121
Firearms	71	116	95	76	98	78	54	78
Immigration	45	92	63	21	30	53	41	65
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	33	43	89	32	32	44	37	55
Robbery	4	12	14	9	8	6	4	4
Sex Abuse	4	7	4	5	9	9	9	9
Prison Offenses	11	7	2	3	6	7	6	5
Assault	4	4	3	3	2	10	6	4
Child Pornography	6	3	4	3	5	3	7	3
Tax	4	2	3	5	3	5	9	2
Administration of Justice	4	6	3	5	2	7	1	3
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	4	3	4	3	5	4	3	0
Bribery/Corruption	3	4	2	3	3	4	3	2
Murder	2	4	1	1	3	0	1	9
Individual Rights	0	2	1	0	3	1	10	3
Money Launder	0	4	0	2	2	3	4	5
Environmental	3	0	0	6	0	2	4	3
Other	7	2	0	3	0	2	3	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	2	6	2	0	1	0	1	3
Stalking/Harassing	0	2	1	1	2	2	2	1
Antitrust	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	1	1	1	1	1	3	1	0
Commercialized Vice	0	1	2	2	0	0	1	0
Burglary/Trespass	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	2
Food and Drug	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Kidnapping	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
Drug Possession	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Extortion/Racketeering	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
National Defense	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	342	456	386	262	324	372	322	378

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	78%294	294
Not a U.S. citizen	22%84	84
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

65 of the 378 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black	50%187	187
Hispanic	25%96	96
White+MENA	21%79	79
AIAN	3%12	12
Asian+NHPI	1%2	2
Race unknown	1%2	2

All 378 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	49%185	185
II	15%56	56
III	13%50	50
IV	7%25	25
V	7%26	26
VI	9%35	35
Category not known	<1%1	1

All 378 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	65%244	244
Above the range	7%25	25
Below the range, government-sponsored	12%44	44
Below the range, not government-sponsored	17%65	65

All 378 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	380	274	106	72.1%	27.9%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	281	175	106	62.3%	37.7%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	258	152	106	58.9%	41.1%

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 Mississippi, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	364	335	24	5	14
FY2003	437	401	30	6	18
FY2004	361	325	31	5	15
FY2005	404	359	43	2	12
FY2006	386	335	46	5	21
FY2007	431	349	48	34	31
FY2008	453	365	55	33	28
FY2009	358	297	30	31	19
FY2010	332	298	25	9	19
FY2011	309	264	43	2	27
FY2012	289	237	46	6	27
FY2013	362	293	68	1	41
FY2014	270	211	59	0	29
FY2015	278	244	34	0	14
FY2016	238	203	35	0	5
FY2017	281	225	56	0	30
FY2018	342	266	75	1	45
FY2019	456	328	126	2	92
FY2020	386	268	117	1	63
FY2021	262	222	40	0	21
FY2022	324	286	38	0	30
FY2023	372	294	78	0	53
FY2024	322	262	60	0	41
FY2025	378	294	84	0	65

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 Mississippi, 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	364	283	12	16	47	1	5	82%	4
FY2003*	437	360	11	27	39	0	0	85%	2
FY2004	361	297	9	28	25	0	2	85%	2
FY2005*	404	336	8	21	39	0	0	85%	2
FY2006	386	319	8	12	44	0	3	85%	3
FY2007	431	335	10	20	61	0	5	81%	0
FY2008*	453	326	11	29	87	0	0	74%	2
FY2009	358	250	12	22	71	2	1	73%	4
FY2010*	332	248	11	17	56	0	0	78%	0
FY2011	309	221	12	20	56	0	0	75%	0
FY2012	289	209	12	28	40	0	0	76%	0
FY2013	362	317	13	12	20	0	0	91%	2
FY2014	270	216	17	14	23	0	0	86%	0
FY2015	278	220	12	18	28	0	0	83%	3
FY2016	238	198	6	8	26	0	0	86%	0
FY2017	281	253	3	8	17	0	0	91%	0
FY2018	342	316	8	6	12	0	0	95%	1
FY2019*	456	428	7	6	15	0	0	95%	2
FY2020	386	352	8	8	18	0	0	93%	2
FY2021	262	238	0	4	20	0	0	91%	0
FY2022	324	303	3	4	14	0	0	94%	2
FY2023	372	337	7	7	21	0	0	92%	0
FY2024*	322	288	5	2	27	0	0	91%	1
FY2025	378	337	4	5	32	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 Mississippi, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	51	30	359	61	41	295
FY2003*	50	30	437	59	39	371
FY2004	57	39	359	66	48	306
FY2005*	58	37	403	67	48	343
FY2006	54	33	382	63	41	325
FY2007	46	28	426	57	39	340
FY2008*	43	24	453	58	41	337
FY2009	46	18	357	62	37	259
FY2010*	53	28	332	67	47	258
FY2011	42	24	309	55	39	232
FY2012	39	24	289	49	37	220
FY2013	66	41	362	72	48	327
FY2014	52	31	270	61	43	229
FY2015	72	41	278	86	51	231
FY2016	69	48	238	81	60	203
FY2017	70	49	281	77	60	256
FY2018	70	50	342	74	57	324
FY2019*	70	37	456	73	41	435
FY2020	53	21	386	56	24	360
FY2021	67	41	262	74	49	238
FY2022	78	48	324	82	51	306
FY2023	72	46	372	77	52	344
FY2024*	79	45	322	87	50	293
FY2025	68	37	378	75	41	341

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 Mississippi by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	127	183	138	160	104	111	106	56
Fraud	64	51	42	48	54	120	93	114
Firearms	44	51	66	61	73	75	75	45
Larceny	18	28	13	18	16	15	28	31
Immigration	14	18	15	12	21	31	28	19
Robbery	17	17	18	9	12	5	14	10
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	5	12	10	12	6	12	18	16
Embezzlement	5	13	16	11	17	5	6	4
Forgery/Counterfeiting	15	11	7	6	14	7	6	10
Racketeering/Extortion	8	7	8	10	11	4	10	4
Administration of Justice	2	9	5	5	6	7	4	10
Money Laundering	12	5	3	10	9	3	5	0
Pornography/Prostitution	4	3	1	6	4	3	10	12
Assault	3	7	2	5	7	4	10	2
Sexual Abuse	5	1	3	12	5	3	8	0
Tax Offenses	2	1	2	6	3	2	6	4
Drugs - Communication Facilities	5	3	8	1	2	0	2	3
Prison Offenses	0	2	2	1	7	7	3	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	4	3	0	0	0	0	11	3
Drugs - Simple Possession	3	3	1	1	2	2	1	3
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	0	1	0	2	6	4
Bribery	1	3	1	0	3	1	1	2
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	1	1	0	4	1	3	1	1
Murder	1	2	0	1	3	1	0	3
Auto Theft	1	1	0	1	0	6	0	0
Manslaughter	1	0	0	1	2	1	1	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	1
Arson	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Offense type not known	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
All offenses	364	437	361	404	386	431	453	358

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 Mississippi by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	84	57	64	143	56	88	66	63
Fraud	72	81	64	59	60	38	31	40
Firearms	38	28	33	49	25	24	42	41
Immigration	19	27	27	41	29	14	5	30
Larceny	30	33	20	13	14	10	10	5
Racketeering/Extortion	7	17	7	9	15	18	15	26
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	14	14	19	4	10	15	8	7
Administration of Justice	6	10	9	5	11	12	13	9
Child Pornography	19	6	6	2	4	5	5	9
Money Laundering	5	6	4	5	5	5	4	3
Embezzlement	9	6	5	3	0	3	2	5
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	1	0	7	2	3	10	5	3
Bribery	0	2	4	5	6	3	4	6
Prison Offenses	4	0	0	3	8	2	12	1
Robbery	9	3	4	4	4	0	1	4
Assault	2	3	2	3	1	4	4	6
Forgery/Counterfeiting	6	4	4	2	2	2	0	5
Sexual Abuse	2	3	4	2	6	4	0	2
Drugs - Communication Facilities	2	4	2	4	2	3	4	1
Tax Offenses	1	3	1	0	1	4	1	6
Gambling/Lottery	1	0	0	0	0	6	0	2
Murder	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	2
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	2
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	1
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
Manslaughter	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Arson	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
All offenses	332	309	289	362	270	278	238	281

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 Mississippi by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	121	32%
Firearms	78	21%
Immigration	65	17%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	55	15%
Murder	9	2%
Sex Abuse	9	2%
Money Launder	5	1%
Prison Offenses	5	1%
Assault	4	1%
Robbery	4	1%
Administration of Justice	3	1%
Child Pornography	3	1%
Environmental	3	1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	3	1%
Individual Rights	3	1%
Bribery/Corruption	2	1%
Burglary/Trespass	2	1%
Tax	2	1%
Food and Drug	1	<1%
Stalking/Harassing	1	<1%

All 378 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 Mississippi by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Share
Black	187	50%
Hispanic	96	25%
White+MENA	79	21%
AIAN	12	3%
Asian+NHPI	2	1%
Race unknown	2	1%

All 378 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 Southern District of Mississippi by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	185	49%
II	56	15%
III	50	13%
IV	25	7%
V	26	7%
VI	35	9%
Category not known	1	<1%

All 378 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 Mississippi against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	244	65%
Above the range	25	7%
Below the range, government-sponsored	44	12%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	65	17%

All 378 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 Mississippi, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	526	223	303	42.4%	57.6%
FY2007	466	224	242	48.1%	51.9%
FY2008	513	203	310	39.6%	60.4%
FY2009	409	174	235	42.5%	57.5%
FY2010	399	178	221	44.6%	55.4%
FY2011	297	145	152	48.8%	51.2%
FY2012	412	234	178	56.8%	43.2%
FY2013	356	175	181	49.2%	50.8%
FY2014	325	163	162	50.2%	49.8%
FY2015	281	158	123	56.2%	43.8%
FY2016	212	111	101	52.4%	47.6%
FY2017	285	187	98	65.6%	34.4%
FY2018	385	293	92	76.1%	23.9%
FY2019	554	382	172	69.0%	31.0%
FY2020	340	203	137	59.7%	40.3%
FY2021	314	215	99	68.5%	31.5%
FY2022	312	219	93	70.2%	29.8%
FY2023	298	211	87	70.8%	29.2%
FY2024	326	214	112	65.6%	34.4%
FY2025	380	274	106	72.1%	27.9%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	511	208	303	40.7%	59.3%
FY2007	444	203	241	45.7%	54.3%
FY2008	503	193	310	38.4%	61.6%
FY2009	374	146	228	39.0%	61.0%
FY2010	378	157	221	41.5%	58.5%
FY2011	275	124	151	45.1%	54.9%
FY2012	372	195	177	52.4%	47.6%
FY2013	332	151	181	45.5%	54.5%
FY2014	305	143	162	46.9%	53.1%
FY2015	274	152	122	55.5%	44.5%
FY2016	206	107	99	51.9%	48.1%
FY2017	258	160	98	62.0%	38.0%
FY2018	334	242	92	72.5%	27.5%
FY2019	459	299	160	65.1%	34.9%
FY2020	310	174	136	56.1%	43.9%
FY2021	290	192	98	66.2%	33.8%
FY2022	291	198	93	68.0%	32.0%
FY2023	260	174	86	66.9%	33.1%
FY2024	307	195	112	63.5%	36.5%
FY2025	281	175	106	62.3%	37.7%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	273	180	93	65.9%	34.1%
FY2023	233	149	84	63.9%	36.1%
FY2024	287	175	112	61.0%	39.0%
FY2025	258	152	106	58.9%	41.1%

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