Western District of Michigan

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 242
Noncitizens, FY2025: 15%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 219
Detained, FY2025: 63.0%

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%217	217
Prison and alternatives	1%2	2
Probation and alternatives	4%9	9
Probation only	6%14	14

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 63 months (mean 98) for the 219 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
Firearms	27%65	65
Drug Trafficking	25%61	61
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	13%32	32
Immigration	11%27	27
Sex Abuse	7%18	18
Assault	5%11	11
Administration of Justice	3%7	7
Money Launder	3%7	7
Child Pornography	3%6	6
Kidnapping	1%2	2
Extortion/Racketeering	<1%1	1
Murder	<1%1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%1	1
Robbery	<1%1	1
Stalking/Harassing	<1%1	1
Tax	<1%1	1

All 242 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	107	97	124	122	105	87	60	61
Firearms	50	49	55	64	43	51	64	65
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	61	72	31	30	38	37	33	32
Immigration	77	89	50	23	21	10	6	27
Sex Abuse	14	17	10	8	11	18	19	18
Child Pornography	12	8	7	9	5	7	7	6
Robbery	7	9	15	9	8	3	4	1
Assault	6	14	2	2	5	2	4	11
Administration of Justice	1	4	8	3	4	2	2	7
Environmental	1	11	0	0	0	6	11	0
Money Launder	4	1	0	5	5	5	0	7
Stalking/Harassing	1	4	3	3	2	1	4	1
Tax	4	2	3	1	4	2	0	1
Prison Offenses	2	2	2	2	3	1	3	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1	0	7	1	4	1	0	0
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	3	1	1	1	4	0	0	1
Other	4	3	1	1	0	0	1	0
Kidnapping	1	0	1	1	0	3	1	2
Food and Drug	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	1
National Defense	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	0
Bribery/Corruption	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0
Commercialized Vice	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
Drug Possession	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Extortion/Racketeering	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1
Arson	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Individual Rights	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Burglary/Trespass	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	359	392	320	291	265	240	226	242

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	85%206	206
Not a U.S. citizen	15%36	36
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

27 of the 242 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black	49%118	118
White+MENA	25%61	61
Hispanic, 1 placed by CrimeDB	22%52	52
AIAN, 2 placed by CrimeDB	4%9	9
Asian+NHPI	1%2	2

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 242 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 3 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	34%83	83
II	11%27	27
III	26%64	64
IV	12%29	29
V	6%15	15
VI	10%24	24

All 242 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	60%146	146
Above the range	3%6	6
Below the range, government-sponsored	10%23	23
Below the range, not government-sponsored	28%67	67

All 242 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	219	138	81	63.0%	37.0%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	185	107	78	57.8%	42.2%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	169	92	77	54.4%	45.6%

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 Michigan, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	390	322	59	9	35
FY2003	449	387	53	9	35
FY2004	359	287	63	9	52
FY2005	387	307	77	3	58
FY2006	435	366	58	11	39
FY2007	447	353	84	10	53
FY2008	455	358	92	5	76
FY2009	484	337	140	7	100
FY2010	544	354	181	9	157
FY2011	501	299	192	10	151
FY2012	466	334	119	13	100
FY2013	423	309	111	3	85
FY2014	387	292	91	4	73
FY2015	394	295	97	2	80
FY2016	330	236	94	0	70
FY2017	369	267	102	0	72
FY2018	359	279	79	1	77
FY2019	392	288	102	2	89
FY2020	320	265	55	0	50
FY2021	291	260	31	0	23
FY2022	265	239	26	0	21
FY2023	240	228	11	1	10
FY2024	226	214	10	2	6
FY2025	242	206	36	0	27

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 Michigan, 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	390	324	20	14	20	6	6	90%	0
FY2003*	449	399	17	10	19	1	3	93%	0
FY2004	359	308	12	12	20	2	5	90%	4
FY2005*	387	338	14	18	16	1	0	91%	1
FY2006	435	374	15	20	25	1	0	89%	3
FY2007	447	396	15	9	23	4	0	92%	3
FY2008*	455	414	5	9	23	4	0	92%	3
FY2009	484	437	4	13	27	3	0	91%	2
FY2010*	544	492	9	6	32	5	0	92%	0
FY2011	501	465	6	10	17	3	0	94%	2
FY2012	466	415	10	10	27	4	0	91%	1
FY2013	423	380	9	8	25	1	0	92%	1
FY2014	387	355	4	4	16	8	0	93%	1
FY2015	394	327	11	11	37	8	0	86%	1
FY2016	330	292	9	4	25	0	0	91%	0
FY2017	369	319	14	8	24	4	0	90%	0
FY2018	359	316	15	7	19	2	0	92%	2
FY2019*	392	341	9	14	27	1	0	89%	2
FY2020	320	282	10	6	21	1	0	91%	0
FY2021	291	272	2	4	12	1	0	94%	1
FY2022	265	240	1	7	16	1	0	91%	1
FY2023	240	215	5	5	15	0	0	92%	0
FY2024*	226	198	4	6	18	0	0	89%	1
FY2025	242	217	2	9	14	0	0	90%	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 Western District of Michigan, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	52	36	384	58	46	344
FY2003*	61	46	446	65	48	414
FY2004	61	41	347	68	48	311
FY2005*	65	45	387	71	48	352
FY2006	65	46	435	72	51	389
FY2007	70	42	447	76	48	411
FY2008*	75	51	455	82	60	418
FY2009	59	34	484	65	42	439
FY2010*	55	32	544	61	37	490
FY2011	54	28	500	58	33	459
FY2012	68	36	466	76	48	414
FY2013	57	30	423	63	37	387
FY2014	76	42	387	81	51	358
FY2015	58	24	394	68	32	334
FY2016	54	24	330	60	34	295
FY2017	51	24	369	57	30	326
FY2018	65	33	359	71	41	331
FY2019*	59	27	392	66	36	350
FY2020	71	42	320	77	54	292
FY2021	88	66	291	93	72	274
FY2022	86	60	265	94	70	241
FY2023	97	64	240	105	75	220
FY2024*	85	60	226	95	63	202
FY2025	89	59	242	98	63	219

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 Michigan by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	169	180	108	109	147	179	172	144
Firearms	42	80	56	72	76	62	65	93
Immigration	35	35	52	58	39	53	76	100
Fraud	49	45	37	34	41	51	42	40
Robbery	8	26	19	21	14	10	18	10
Pornography/Prostitution	5	9	7	8	17	15	21	13
Forgery/Counterfeiting	5	9	6	6	19	16	14	11
Larceny	7	10	17	17	8	9	6	8
Embezzlement	15	16	13	8	8	5	4	12
Administration of Justice	6	8	6	6	14	5	9	14
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	7	5	7	5	9	10	7	14
Tax Offenses	8	8	6	6	8	6	5	4
Assault	5	2	6	10	8	3	4	5
Racketeering/Extortion	5	1	3	4	7	2	4	4
Sexual Abuse	2	2	4	6	6	4	2	3
Drugs - Communication Facilities	7	2	3	2	6	4	0	3
Money Laundering	2	3	3	6	2	2	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	6	0	0	1	3	3	0	1
Drugs - Simple Possession	2	4	0	0	1	0	3	1
Arson	2	1	1	2	0	0	1	2
Prison Offenses	1	0	2	0	1	5	0	0
Murder	0	0	2	0	0	2	1	1
Auto Theft	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0
Bribery	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
Food and Drug Offenses	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Offense type not known	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	390	449	359	387	435	447	455	484

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 Michigan by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	136	104	128	142	117	133	78	72
Immigration	157	151	100	85	73	80	70	72
Fraud	58	53	58	62	43	52	66	80
Firearms	63	78	79	44	47	25	30	61
Child Pornography	20	24	23	17	21	23	18	17
Administration of Justice	13	18	14	10	5	17	11	10
Robbery	18	12	13	5	16	11	11	7
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	13	6	3	8	4	4	10	7
Assault	4	11	7	1	6	3	7	15
Larceny	7	8	5	5	12	6	4	7
Embezzlement	16	3	5	8	5	6	5	2
Racketeering/Extortion	2	9	4	6	15	4	1	0
Tax Offenses	9	8	1	7	5	2	4	5
Sexual Abuse	5	3	4	4	4	5	7	5
Drugs - Communication Facilities	4	3	3	5	3	3	1	2
Prison Offenses	3	4	3	3	2	2	1	2
Forgery/Counterfeiting	8	1	2	2	2	0	1	2
Drugs - Simple Possession	1	0	10	1	0	2	1	2
Money Laundering	2	2	3	3	2	3	1	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	0	3	11	0	0
Arson	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Bribery	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0
Civil Rights Offenses	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
Auto Theft	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Murder	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Antitrust Violations	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
All offenses	544	501	466	423	387	394	330	369

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 Michigan by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Firearms	65	27%
Drug Trafficking	61	25%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	32	13%
Immigration	27	11%
Sex Abuse	18	7%
Assault	11	5%
Administration of Justice	7	3%
Money Launder	7	3%
Child Pornography	6	3%
Kidnapping	2	1%
Extortion/Racketeering	1	<1%
Murder	1	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	<1%
Robbery	1	<1%
Stalking/Harassing	1	<1%
Tax	1	<1%

All 242 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 Michigan by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Black	118	0	49%
White+MENA	61	0	25%
Hispanic	52	1	22%
AIAN	9	2	4%
Asian+NHPI	2	0	1%

All 242 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 3 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 Western District of Michigan by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	83	34%
II	27	11%
III	64	26%
IV	29	12%
V	15	6%
VI	24	10%

All 242 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 Michigan against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	146	60%
Above the range	6	3%
Below the range, government-sponsored	23	10%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	67	28%

All 242 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 Michigan, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	436	199	237	45.6%	54.4%
FY2007	489	238	251	48.7%	51.3%
FY2008	466	231	235	49.6%	50.4%
FY2009	508	298	210	58.7%	41.3%
FY2010	536	305	231	56.9%	43.1%
FY2011	546	309	237	56.6%	43.4%
FY2012	456	249	207	54.6%	45.4%
FY2013	402	209	193	52.0%	48.0%
FY2014	422	176	246	41.7%	58.3%
FY2015	362	209	153	57.7%	42.3%
FY2016	385	218	167	56.6%	43.4%
FY2017	364	203	161	55.8%	44.2%
FY2018	433	252	181	58.2%	41.8%
FY2019	389	257	132	66.1%	33.9%
FY2020	286	174	112	60.8%	39.2%
FY2021	307	196	111	63.8%	36.2%
FY2022	216	121	95	56.0%	44.0%
FY2023	252	140	112	55.6%	44.4%
FY2024	213	116	97	54.5%	45.5%
FY2025	219	138	81	63.0%	37.0%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	401	164	237	40.9%	59.1%
FY2007	435	185	250	42.5%	57.5%
FY2008	425	190	235	44.7%	55.3%
FY2009	406	196	210	48.3%	51.7%
FY2010	406	175	231	43.1%	56.9%
FY2011	420	183	237	43.6%	56.4%
FY2012	380	173	207	45.5%	54.5%
FY2013	339	146	193	43.1%	56.9%
FY2014	368	123	245	33.4%	66.6%
FY2015	304	151	153	49.7%	50.3%
FY2016	323	156	167	48.3%	51.7%
FY2017	303	144	159	47.5%	52.5%
FY2018	368	189	179	51.4%	48.6%
FY2019	314	182	132	58.0%	42.0%
FY2020	250	138	112	55.2%	44.8%
FY2021	295	184	111	62.4%	37.6%
FY2022	202	107	95	53.0%	47.0%
FY2023	248	137	111	55.2%	44.8%
FY2024	199	113	86	56.8%	43.2%
FY2025	185	107	78	57.8%	42.2%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	199	105	94	52.8%	47.2%
FY2023	239	133	106	55.6%	44.4%
FY2024	193	111	82	57.5%	42.5%
FY2025	169	92	77	54.4%	45.6%

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