Western District of Missouri

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 668
Noncitizens, FY2025: 10%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 665
Detained, FY2025: 74.1%

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	90%603	603
Prison and alternatives	<1%1	1
Probation and alternatives	2%11	11
Probation only	8%53	53

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 78 months (mean 103) for the 604 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	38%251	251
Firearms	28%188	188
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	8%50	50
Child Pornography	6%40	40
Money Launder	5%31	31
Immigration	4%28	28
Sex Abuse	3%23	23
Administration of Justice	2%13	13
Robbery	1%7	7
Murder	1%6	6
Stalking/Harassing	1%6	6
Prison Offenses	1%5	5
Tax	1%5	5
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	<1%3	3
Assault	<1%2	2
Extortion/Racketeering	<1%2	2
Kidnapping	<1%2	2
Other	<1%2	2
Bribery/Corruption	<1%1	1
Burglary/Trespass	<1%1	1
Individual Rights	<1%1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%1	1

All 668 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	303	266	236	189	324	316	339	251
Firearms	212	218	235	228	245	206	186	188
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	51	52	40	34	48	63	76	50
Child Pornography	50	46	42	32	39	41	56	40
Money Launder	33	34	28	22	40	71	27	31
Sex Abuse	21	33	20	18	25	36	27	23
Immigration	14	40	25	13	12	14	9	28
Robbery	15	32	21	10	27	23	16	7
Tax	17	12	9	9	3	9	6	5
Administration of Justice	7	9	9	2	5	5	3	13
Prison Offenses	13	6	4	1	6	9	2	5
Murder	8	1	1	1	2	8	13	6
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	3	6	6	8	7	5	1
Assault	4	4	5	4	5	3	5	2
Stalking/Harassing	4	3	0	3	3	4	0	6
Arson	2	1	2	1	8	5	1	0
Kidnapping	2	4	2	0	0	6	0	2
Other	3	1	0	2	1	0	7	2
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	6	1	2	1	0	2	0	3
Environmental	4	1	0	2	1	2	1	0
Extortion/Racketeering	4	0	1	1	1	2	0	2
Individual Rights	0	0	6	0	1	1	1	1
Food and Drug	1	3	0	1	0	3	0	0
Commercialized Vice	1	2	0	1	0	1	1	0
Drug Possession	1	0	0	0	5	0	0	0
Bribery/Corruption	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	1
National Defense	0	0	2	1	1	1	0	0
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Manslaughter	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
All offenses	779	772	697	582	810	841	783	668

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%604	604
Not a U.S. citizen	10%64	64
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

28 of the 668 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
White+MENA, 162 placed by CrimeDB	44%292	292
Black, 149 placed by CrimeDB	38%252	252
Hispanic, 53 placed by CrimeDB	15%103	103
Asian+NHPI, 5 placed by CrimeDB	1%7	7
AIAN, 2 placed by CrimeDB	1%4	4
Race unknown	2%10	10

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 668 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 371 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	36%240	240
II	13%87	87
III	16%105	105
IV	8%56	56
V	7%45	45
VI	20%135	135

All 668 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	36%239	239
Above the range	9%61	61
Below the range, government-sponsored	28%187	187
Below the range, not government-sponsored	27%181	181

All 668 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	665	493	172	74.1%	25.9%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	618	451	167	73.0%	27.0%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	593	426	167	71.8%	28.2%

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 Missouri, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	654	576	75	3	18
FY2003	700	592	98	10	49
FY2004	761	674	83	4	33
FY2005	753	674	72	7	27
FY2006	911	765	139	7	44
FY2007	808	667	139	2	57
FY2008	779	631	146	2	60
FY2009	832	654	172	6	81
FY2010	659	564	92	3	34
FY2011	658	568	88	2	38
FY2012	783	710	65	8	22
FY2013	684	579	103	2	40
FY2014	830	745	85	0	25
FY2015	897	810	85	2	22
FY2016	835	770	63	2	14
FY2017	804	755	49	0	9
FY2018	779	730	49	0	14
FY2019	772	686	86	0	40
FY2020	697	624	72	1	25
FY2021	582	545	37	0	13
FY2022	810	758	51	1	12
FY2023	841	788	53	0	14
FY2024	783	729	54	0	9
FY2025	668	604	64	0	28

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 Missouri, 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	654	542	23	35	51	0	3	87%	2
FY2003*	700	589	14	40	48	8	1	86%	0
FY2004	761	670	24	30	36	1	0	91%	4
FY2005*	753	640	19	35	56	3	0	88%	6
FY2006	911	792	18	45	55	1	0	89%	5
FY2007	808	709	16	28	54	1	0	90%	5
FY2008*	779	669	12	29	69	0	0	87%	6
FY2009	832	710	17	34	71	0	0	87%	5
FY2010*	659	555	8	36	58	2	0	85%	0
FY2011	658	558	7	32	60	1	0	86%	3
FY2012	783	653	10	29	87	4	0	85%	1
FY2013	684	612	8	18	45	1	0	91%	7
FY2014	830	722	12	25	71	0	0	88%	0
FY2015	897	768	8	16	105	0	0	87%	3
FY2016	835	732	13	16	71	3	0	89%	0
FY2017	804	711	6	17	70	0	0	89%	0
FY2018	779	693	9	11	66	0	0	90%	5
FY2019*	772	712	3	15	42	0	0	93%	0
FY2020	697	636	5	13	42	1	0	92%	3
FY2021	582	528	2	2	50	0	0	91%	0
FY2022	810	746	4	1	58	1	0	93%	0
FY2023	841	762	7	1	70	1	0	91%	5
FY2024*	783	682	6	8	87	0	0	88%	5
FY2025	668	603	1	11	53	0	0	90%	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 Western District of Missouri, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	58	37	651	67	46	564
FY2003*	55	37	696	63	46	599
FY2004	64	46	760	71	51	688
FY2005*	64	37	753	73	48	659
FY2006	69	46	911	77	57	810
FY2007	65	46	808	72	51	724
FY2008*	65	41	779	75	50	680
FY2009	66	42	832	76	54	724
FY2010*	62	46	659	72	57	562
FY2011	62	39	658	73	48	560
FY2012	64	42	783	76	57	658
FY2013	76	58	684	84	60	615
FY2014	68	48	830	78	60	723
FY2015	71	50	897	84	60	761
FY2016	74	60	834	85	60	729
FY2017	72	60	804	81	60	715
FY2018	81	60	779	90	66	702
FY2019*	85	60	772	92	70	715
FY2020	83	60	697	90	70	641
FY2021	83	63	582	91	72	530
FY2022	84	70	810	91	72	750
FY2023	95	72	841	104	84	769
FY2024*	93	72	783	106	84	688
FY2025	93	72	668	103	78	604

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 Missouri by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	302	287	296	291	373	264	253	288
Firearms	162	185	262	258	280	269	238	228
Fraud	42	61	46	62	67	78	85	84
Immigration	18	49	33	27	44	57	60	81
Larceny	27	22	18	12	19	19	20	30
Pornography/Prostitution	7	8	20	25	30	20	22	24
Robbery	19	19	18	13	20	17	21	11
Forgery/Counterfeiting	9	10	18	13	20	14	10	8
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	6	8	8	8	12	6	5	12
Embezzlement	6	11	7	9	6	6	6	5
Administration of Justice	9	6	2	4	6	13	7	7
Money Laundering	10	5	8	4	5	8	8	5
Tax Offenses	4	4	6	5	9	9	7	9
Drugs - Simple Possession	3	3	3	4	1	5	6	3
Prison Offenses	3	2	2	5	4	3	5	3
Racketeering/Extortion	8	4	3	1	2	3	1	3
Sexual Abuse	1	1	1	0	2	7	6	7
Assault	2	4	0	3	4	3	4	2
Food and Drug Offenses	1	3	2	1	1	3	8	3
Drugs - Communication Facilities	3	1	1	1	3	0	5	4
Murder	2	0	1	4	0	2	0	0
Auto Theft	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	3
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	2	1	2	1	0	2
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5
Gambling/Lottery	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	1
Arson	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
Bribery	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	654	700	761	753	911	808	779	832

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 Missouri by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	213	182	224	217	292	316	318	292
Firearms	176	179	207	184	216	232	233	283
Fraud	84	84	119	78	135	113	71	65
Child Pornography	30	33	35	41	36	67	56	43
Immigration	34	38	22	40	25	22	14	9
Larceny	15	11	28	12	24	17	13	8
Robbery	17	13	17	22	15	13	10	10
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	14	9	14	20	12	21	14	13
Administration of Justice	6	13	28	10	15	11	15	14
Tax Offenses	12	16	9	5	12	15	10	7
Money Laundering	7	14	12	8	7	12	10	9
Sexual Abuse	9	5	4	5	7	11	8	9
Forgery/Counterfeiting	5	9	13	4	8	4	11	3
Drugs - Communication Facilities	1	3	3	4	4	9	11	13
Prison Offenses	2	5	8	10	1	3	6	5
Assault	3	8	7	2	7	7	3	2
Racketeering/Extortion	4	8	7	4	1	2	6	5
Embezzlement	6	6	3	3	4	1	11	2
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	5	3	4	2	0	5	6	2
Drugs - Simple Possession	4	6	5	1	0	2	1	1
Arson	4	1	3	3	1	5	1	1
Food and Drug Offenses	3	1	1	1	1	4	2	4
Gambling/Lottery	2	9	1	2	0	0	1	0
Auto Theft	1	1	2	3	4	1	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	2	2	2	1	2	2
Murder	2	0	0	1	1	3	2	1
National Defense Offenses	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
Bribery	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
All offenses	659	658	783	684	830	897	835	804

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 Missouri by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	251	38%
Firearms	188	28%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	50	8%
Child Pornography	40	6%
Money Launder	31	5%
Immigration	28	4%
Sex Abuse	23	3%
Administration of Justice	13	2%
Robbery	7	1%
Murder	6	1%
Stalking/Harassing	6	1%
Prison Offenses	5	1%
Tax	5	1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	3	<1%
Assault	2	<1%
Extortion/Racketeering	2	<1%
Kidnapping	2	<1%
Other	2	<1%
Bribery/Corruption	1	<1%
Burglary/Trespass	1	<1%
Individual Rights	1	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	<1%

All 668 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 Missouri by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
White+MENA	292	162	44%
Black	252	149	38%
Hispanic	103	53	15%
Asian+NHPI	7	5	1%
AIAN	4	2	1%
Race unknown	10	0	2%

All 668 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 371 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 Missouri by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	240	36%
II	87	13%
III	105	16%
IV	56	8%
V	45	7%
VI	135	20%

All 668 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 Missouri against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	239	36%
Above the range	61	9%
Below the range, government-sponsored	187	28%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	181	27%

All 668 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 Missouri, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	891	474	417	53.2%	46.8%
FY2007	978	565	413	57.8%	42.2%
FY2008	708	378	330	53.4%	46.6%
FY2009	718	370	348	51.5%	48.5%
FY2010	714	345	369	48.3%	51.7%
FY2011	748	392	356	52.4%	47.6%
FY2012	708	420	288	59.3%	40.7%
FY2013	948	494	454	52.1%	47.9%
FY2014	772	446	326	57.8%	42.2%
FY2015	862	516	346	59.9%	40.1%
FY2016	745	464	281	62.3%	37.7%
FY2017	757	485	272	64.1%	35.9%
FY2018	729	502	227	68.9%	31.1%
FY2019	892	628	264	70.4%	29.6%
FY2020	767	539	228	70.3%	29.7%
FY2021	727	497	230	68.4%	31.6%
FY2022	600	403	197	67.2%	32.8%
FY2023	587	418	169	71.2%	28.8%
FY2024	570	403	167	70.7%	29.3%
FY2025	665	493	172	74.1%	25.9%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	847	432	415	51.0%	49.0%
FY2007	899	494	405	54.9%	45.1%
FY2008	649	321	328	49.5%	50.5%
FY2009	682	334	348	49.0%	51.0%
FY2010	680	311	369	45.7%	54.3%
FY2011	728	372	356	51.1%	48.9%
FY2012	688	400	288	58.1%	41.9%
FY2013	916	465	451	50.8%	49.2%
FY2014	757	431	326	56.9%	43.1%
FY2015	844	498	346	59.0%	41.0%
FY2016	739	458	281	62.0%	38.0%
FY2017	746	474	272	63.5%	36.5%
FY2018	701	475	226	67.8%	32.2%
FY2019	858	595	263	69.3%	30.7%
FY2020	748	521	227	69.7%	30.3%
FY2021	717	487	230	67.9%	32.1%
FY2022	592	396	196	66.9%	33.1%
FY2023	580	411	169	70.9%	29.1%
FY2024	550	385	165	70.0%	30.0%
FY2025	618	451	167	73.0%	27.0%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	559	372	187	66.5%	33.5%
FY2023	565	398	167	70.4%	29.6%
FY2024	528	364	164	68.9%	31.1%
FY2025	593	426	167	71.8%	28.2%

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