Western District of Arkansas

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 164
Noncitizens, FY2025: 7%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 139
Detained, FY2025: 20.9%

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	91%150	150
Prison and alternatives	2%3	3
Probation and alternatives	2%4	4
Probation only	2%4	4
Fine only	2%3	3

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 80 months (mean 101) for the 153 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	51%84	84
Firearms	15%25	25
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	9%14	14
Child Pornography	6%10	10
Money Launder	4%6	6
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	3%5	5
Immigration	2%4	4
Environmental	2%3	3
Sex Abuse	2%3	3
Tax	2%3	3
Individual Rights	1%2	2
Administration of Justice	1%1	1
Murder	1%1	1
National Defense	1%1	1
Robbery	1%1	1
Stalking/Harassing	1%1	1

All 164 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

People sentenced in the Western District of Arkansas by offense, FY2018 to FY2025

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	120	138	133	79	117	92	108	84
Firearms	31	20	24	30	34	28	33	25
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	19	15	24	24	23	16	16	14
Immigration	23	41	29	15	8	1	3	4
Child Pornography	11	10	11	8	7	12	13	10
Sex Abuse	6	10	7	10	6	5	9	3
Money Launder	5	0	1	5	6	6	11	6
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	0	2	2	7	6	3	3	5
Tax	1	5	2	1	2	3	4	3
Other	9	4	3	0	0	1	0	0
Robbery	2	5	3	0	1	1	1	1
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	4	0	3	0	2	1	0	0
Stalking/Harassing	1	2	1	0	2	2	1	1
Administration of Justice	0	0	3	0	0	2	1	1
Bribery/Corruption	3	0	0	2	1	0	0	0
Environmental	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	3
Arson	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0
Assault	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0
Individual Rights	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2
Prison Offenses	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	0
Commercialized Vice	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Kidnapping	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Drug Possession	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Food and Drug	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
National Defense	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
All offenses	238	258	247	185	219	177	207	164

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	93%152	152
Not a U.S. citizen	7%11	11
Citizenship not known	1%1	1

4 of the 164 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
White+MENA	49%80	80
Black	32%52	52
Hispanic	17%27	27
Asian+NHPI	1%2	2
AIAN	1%1	1
Race unknown	1%2	2

All 164 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	35%57	57
II	14%23	23
III	10%17	17
IV	8%13	13
V	7%11	11
VI	24%40	40
Category not known	2%3	3

All 164 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	38%62	62
Above the range	12%20	20
Below the range, government-sponsored	11%18	18
Below the range, not government-sponsored	38%62	62
Not known or not comparable	1%2	2

All 164 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	139	29	110	20.9%	79.1%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	136	26	110	19.1%	80.9%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	132	22	110	16.7%	83.3%

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 Western District of Arkansas, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	144	105	38	1	31
FY2003	194	109	84	1	71
FY2004	191	97	92	2	58
FY2005	201	122	78	1	50
FY2006	186	101	84	1	61
FY2007	182	112	69	1	46
FY2008	209	109	100	0	66
FY2009	255	121	133	1	91
FY2010	258	127	131	0	103
FY2011	318	150	168	0	124
FY2012	328	188	136	4	97
FY2013	305	202	100	3	61
FY2014	320	230	88	2	49
FY2015	277	220	56	1	29
FY2016	253	205	48	0	17
FY2017	237	195	40	2	19
FY2018	238	189	49	0	23
FY2019	258	196	60	2	41
FY2020	247	209	36	2	29
FY2021	185	160	25	0	15
FY2022	219	195	24	0	8
FY2023	177	163	14	0	1
FY2024	207	195	12	0	3
FY2025	164	152	11	1	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 Western District of Arkansas, 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	144	108	9	11	14	2	0	81%	1
FY2003*	194	175	5	3	8	3	0	93%	0
FY2004	191	164	5	5	17	0	0	88%	0
FY2005*	201	172	8	5	16	0	0	90%	0
FY2006	186	166	8	3	9	0	0	94%	0
FY2007	182	161	10	6	5	0	0	94%	0
FY2008*	209	197	2	2	7	0	1	96%	0
FY2009	255	235	1	5	14	0	0	93%	1
FY2010*	258	238	1	3	16	0	0	93%	2
FY2011	318	297	5	4	10	2	0	95%	2
FY2012	328	302	3	11	12	0	0	93%	0
FY2013	305	268	7	6	21	3	0	90%	0
FY2014	320	281	16	6	15	2	0	93%	1
FY2015	277	239	4	9	24	1	0	88%	0
FY2016	253	224	1	12	15	1	0	89%	3
FY2017	237	214	3	10	10	0	0	92%	1
FY2018	238	221	4	3	8	2	0	95%	0
FY2019*	258	246	1	3	8	0	0	96%	1
FY2020	247	227	3	7	10	0	0	93%	1
FY2021	185	167	1	4	13	0	0	91%	0
FY2022	219	203	3	6	7	0	0	94%	0
FY2023	177	162	2	7	5	1	0	93%	0
FY2024*	207	196	0	6	5	0	0	95%	1
FY2025	164	150	3	4	4	3	0	93%	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 Western District of Arkansas, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	40	17	144	49	24	117
FY2003*	41	27	194	44	30	180
FY2004	38	18	191	42	21	168
FY2005*	39	21	201	43	27	180
FY2006	39	21	186	42	24	172
FY2007	48	27	182	51	30	171
FY2008*	59	41	208	62	46	198
FY2009	49	24	255	52	30	236
FY2010*	42	21	258	46	27	237
FY2011	58	29	318	62	36	297
FY2012	62	35	328	67	41	302
FY2013	57	36	305	63	46	272
FY2014	64	37	320	69	41	296
FY2015	60	37	277	69	49	240
FY2016	73	48	253	82	52	225
FY2017	74	46	237	81	57	216
FY2018	73	60	238	77	63	225
FY2019*	78	60	258	82	68	247
FY2020	77	60	247	82	63	230
FY2021	84	66	185	92	78	168
FY2022	97	74	219	102	78	206
FY2023	104	87	177	112	94	164
FY2024*	109	96	207	115	97	196
FY2025	94	78	164	101	80	153

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 Western District of Arkansas by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Immigration	31	71	58	50	61	46	66	91
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	35	61	52	56	43	55	56	68
Firearms	11	12	21	20	19	18	20	23
Fraud	23	11	20	26	19	11	12	13
Pornography/Prostitution	3	6	4	4	9	11	22	13
Forgery/Counterfeiting	8	10	4	7	8	0	2	5
Larceny	2	2	3	7	4	9	7	9
Robbery	5	3	8	6	5	7	3	2
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	5	8	2	7	2	5	1	7
Administration of Justice	4	0	1	4	3	6	5	8
Embezzlement	8	4	6	3	1	2	1	1
Sexual Abuse	0	0	3	2	2	3	10	5
Money Laundering	1	1	0	2	3	4	1	3
Tax Offenses	2	0	1	0	1	2	2	1
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	5
Drugs - Simple Possession	1	1	0	2	2	1	0	0
Assault	0	1	2	0	0	1	1	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Prison Offenses	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1
Arson	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Racketeering/Extortion	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Auto Theft	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Murder	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	144	194	191	201	186	182	209	255

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 Western District of Arkansas by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	55	90	122	111	129	105	100	88
Immigration	103	124	97	61	49	29	17	19
Firearms	28	31	44	34	39	32	31	38
Fraud	13	15	19	20	26	27	19	19
Child Pornography	10	15	10	14	18	23	23	21
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	7	2	3	15	17	22	18	11
Administration of Justice	6	6	15	8	6	6	7	4
Larceny	11	6	5	4	9	2	3	3
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	2	8	7	11	4	2
Forgery/Counterfeiting	9	6	1	5	1	4	1	6
Sexual Abuse	1	3	2	2	4	2	10	8
Robbery	1	4	3	3	3	0	6	4
Money Laundering	4	5	1	6	0	3	0	2
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	0	0	4	5	5	3	3
Embezzlement	2	0	2	1	1	1	7	3
Tax Offenses	3	2	1	4	1	0	2	4
Assault	1	2	1	2	2	1	0	1
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	0
Racketeering/Extortion	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	1
Civil Rights Offenses	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
Bribery	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
All offenses	258	318	328	305	320	277	253	237

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 Western District of Arkansas by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	84	51%
Firearms	25	15%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	14	9%
Child Pornography	10	6%
Money Launder	6	4%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	5	3%
Immigration	4	2%
Environmental	3	2%
Sex Abuse	3	2%
Tax	3	2%
Individual Rights	2	1%
Administration of Justice	1	1%
Murder	1	1%
National Defense	1	1%
Robbery	1	1%
Stalking/Harassing	1	1%

All 164 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 Western District of Arkansas by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Share
White+MENA	80	49%
Black	52	32%
Hispanic	27	17%
Asian+NHPI	2	1%
AIAN	1	1%
Race unknown	2	1%

All 164 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 Western District of Arkansas by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	57	35%
II	23	14%
III	17	10%
IV	13	8%
V	11	7%
VI	40	24%
Category not known	3	2%

All 164 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 Western District of Arkansas against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	62	38%
Above the range	20	12%
Below the range, government-sponsored	18	11%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	62	38%
Not known or not comparable	2	1%

All 164 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 Western District of Arkansas, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	211	139	72	65.9%	34.1%
FY2007	252	169	83	67.1%	32.9%
FY2008	234	163	71	69.7%	30.3%
FY2009	268	164	104	61.2%	38.8%
FY2010	309	235	74	76.1%	23.9%
FY2011	267	212	55	79.4%	20.6%
FY2012	350	257	93	73.4%	26.6%
FY2013	315	230	85	73.0%	27.0%
FY2014	215	150	65	69.8%	30.2%
FY2015	225	174	51	77.3%	22.7%
FY2016	208	152	56	73.1%	26.9%
FY2017	205	153	52	74.6%	25.4%
FY2018	200	169	31	84.5%	15.5%
FY2019	277	217	60	78.3%	21.7%
FY2020	199	148	51	74.4%	25.6%
FY2021	150	95	55	63.3%	36.7%
FY2022	179	111	68	62.0%	38.0%
FY2023	104	43	61	41.3%	58.7%
FY2024	81	30	51	37.0%	63.0%
FY2025	139	29	110	20.9%	79.1%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	168	96	72	57.1%	42.9%
FY2007	206	123	83	59.7%	40.3%
FY2008	165	95	70	57.6%	42.4%
FY2009	196	92	104	46.9%	53.1%
FY2010	232	158	74	68.1%	31.9%
FY2011	208	153	55	73.6%	26.4%
FY2012	294	202	92	68.7%	31.3%
FY2013	263	178	85	67.7%	32.3%
FY2014	176	111	65	63.1%	36.9%
FY2015	204	153	51	75.0%	25.0%
FY2016	195	140	55	71.8%	28.2%
FY2017	186	134	52	72.0%	28.0%
FY2018	179	148	31	82.7%	17.3%
FY2019	236	176	60	74.6%	25.4%
FY2020	184	133	51	72.3%	27.7%
FY2021	144	89	55	61.8%	38.2%
FY2022	176	108	68	61.4%	38.6%
FY2023	103	43	60	41.7%	58.3%
FY2024	77	27	50	35.1%	64.9%
FY2025	136	26	110	19.1%	80.9%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	172	104	68	60.5%	39.5%
FY2023	99	38	61	38.4%	61.6%
FY2024	74	26	48	35.1%	64.9%
FY2025	132	22	110	16.7%	83.3%

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