Western District of Oklahoma

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 584
Noncitizens, FY2025: 25%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 576
Detained, FY2025: 52.4%

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%528	528
Prison and alternatives	<1%2	2
Probation and alternatives	1%4	4
Probation only	7%38	38
Fine only	2%12	12

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 53 months (mean 72) for the 530 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
Drug Trafficking	33%191	191
Firearms	22%129	129
Immigration	14%82	82
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	9%52	52
Child Pornography	5%28	28
Other	5%28	28
Sex Abuse	2%12	12
Assault	2%11	11
Money Launder	1%8	8
Robbery	1%8	8
Prison Offenses	1%7	7
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1%6	6
Drug Possession	1%4	4
Administration of Justice	1%3	3
Arson	1%3	3
Stalking/Harassing	1%3	3
Tax	1%3	3
Kidnapping	<1%2	2
Burglary/Trespass	<1%1	1
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	<1%1	1
Individual Rights	<1%1	1
Murder	<1%1	1

All 584 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	100	98	125	130	137	196	215	191
Firearms	37	67	81	86	70	162	146	129
Immigration	41	60	81	18	40	95	96	82
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	50	36	35	21	25	64	49	52
Drug Possession	48	59	48	64	61	17	15	4
Other	15	20	28	24	26	43	36	28
Assault	6	12	13	7	12	23	17	11
Child Pornography	9	7	6	5	10	8	21	28
Money Launder	14	10	7	13	6	8	13	8
Robbery	14	5	12	7	8	7	18	8
Sex Abuse	7	4	7	10	3	15	13	12
Administration of Justice	9	5	9	4	5	5	12	3
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	5	5	2	2	4	5	10	6
Environmental	12	9	2	4	3	6	0	0
Prison Offenses	3	5	0	1	0	3	5	7
Stalking/Harassing	3	0	3	3	3	3	5	3
Bribery/Corruption	3	1	1	1	0	4	3	0
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	3	0	3	4	2	1
Murder	0	0	4	2	1	2	3	1
Kidnapping	0	2	0	2	3	0	3	2
Tax	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	3
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	0	0	0	1	3	2	1	1
Arson	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	3
Individual Rights	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	1
Manslaughter	0	2	0	0	0	1	2	0
National Defense	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
Commercialized Vice	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Extortion/Racketeering	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Food and Drug	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	378	407	473	409	424	677	687	584

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	72%419	419
Not a U.S. citizen	25%146	146
Citizenship not known	3%19	19

82 of the 584 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Hispanic, 2 placed by CrimeDB	33%193	193
Black, 1 placed by CrimeDB	29%171	171
White+MENA, 1 placed by CrimeDB	23%135	135
AIAN	5%30	30
Asian+NHPI	4%24	24
Race unknown	5%31	31

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 584 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 4 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	45%260	260
II	16%91	91
III	14%82	82
IV	7%40	40
V	6%33	33
VI	13%78	78

All 584 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	46%267	267
Above the range	7%40	40
Below the range, government-sponsored	11%62	62
Below the range, not government-sponsored	37%214	214
Not known or not comparable	<1%1	1

All 584 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	576	302	274	52.4%	47.6%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	499	225	274	45.1%	54.9%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	443	174	269	39.3%	60.7%

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 Oklahoma, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	179	155	23	1	11
FY2003	176	157	15	4	6
FY2004	623	250	19	354	3
FY2005	346	236	14	96	3
FY2006	356	212	21	123	12
FY2007	552	301	20	231	7
FY2008	556	291	30	235	9
FY2009	502	257	52	193	29
FY2010	419	257	42	120	26
FY2011	508	286	104	118	64
FY2012	518	296	160	62	97
FY2013	373	249	83	41	39
FY2014	374	256	111	7	66
FY2015	337	241	81	15	48
FY2016	330	245	71	14	35
FY2017	292	220	60	12	24
FY2018	378	274	88	16	41
FY2019	407	293	108	6	60
FY2020	473	332	123	18	81
FY2021	409	336	55	18	18
FY2022	424	345	71	8	40
FY2023	677	493	169	15	95
FY2024	687	493	175	19	96
FY2025	584	419	146	19	82

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 Oklahoma, 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	179	135	6	12	18	0	8	82%	2
FY2003*	176	128	5	13	24	5	1	76%	2
FY2004	623	235	6	14	161	205	2	39%	2
FY2005*	346	192	19	20	96	19	0	61%	2
FY2006	356	205	7	7	104	30	3	60%	0
FY2007	552	266	8	11	147	116	4	50%	3
FY2008*	556	280	19	14	113	130	0	54%	0
FY2009	502	263	15	16	83	125	0	55%	0
FY2010*	419	242	9	20	76	72	0	60%	0
FY2011	508	336	5	12	98	57	0	67%	1
FY2012	518	364	13	25	89	26	1	73%	1
FY2013	373	279	3	16	52	23	0	76%	1
FY2014	374	274	8	31	45	16	0	75%	0
FY2015	337	248	5	5	61	18	0	75%	0
FY2016	330	241	1	19	53	16	0	73%	2
FY2017	292	216	2	17	41	16	0	75%	1
FY2018	378	289	4	9	34	42	0	78%	0
FY2019*	407	338	2	3	33	31	0	84%	0
FY2020	473	383	2	6	27	55	0	81%	2
FY2021	409	314	3	4	46	42	0	78%	1
FY2022	424	347	1	4	35	37	0	82%	3
FY2023	677	585	2	8	50	32	0	87%	1
FY2024*	687	620	4	7	30	26	0	91%	1
FY2025	584	528	2	4	38	12	0	91%	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 Oklahoma, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	63	37	171	76	57	141
FY2003*	53	24	175	69	41	132
FY2004	27	0	621	68	37	241
FY2005*	44	10	346	71	46	211
FY2006	39	9	352	65	41	211
FY2007	37	1	549	74	46	274
FY2008*	32	4	556	60	30	298
FY2009	30	6	502	54	37	275
FY2010*	32	7	419	53	30	249
FY2011	41	18	508	61	40	340
FY2012	39	21	517	54	35	371
FY2013	54	26	373	71	42	282
FY2014	42	24	374	55	37	281
FY2015	40	22	337	53	34	253
FY2016	46	21	330	64	37	238
FY2017	42	21	292	56	34	215
FY2018	45	18	378	58	36	293
FY2019*	46	24	407	55	33	340
FY2020	52	24	473	64	46	385
FY2021	67	36	409	86	57	317
FY2022	62	36	424	75	48	348
FY2023	59	37	677	68	46	587
FY2024*	64	46	687	70	50	624
FY2025	66	42	584	72	53	530

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 Oklahoma by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	3	5	328	89	103	193	182	158
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	67	31	64	36	44	77	63	64
Fraud	23	27	39	47	31	61	55	45
Firearms	19	26	48	42	30	44	57	52
Larceny	3	16	25	22	23	46	41	31
Administration of Justice	3	5	13	13	12	20	36	26
Drugs - Simple Possession	2	9	24	15	17	21	12	6
Forgery/Counterfeiting	8	4	10	12	6	23	22	21
Pornography/Prostitution	3	8	13	12	10	8	19	17
Robbery	8	6	15	16	13	9	9	11
Immigration	11	6	3	3	12	7	9	29
Embezzlement	4	8	6	10	17	2	11	13
Assault	3	2	6	5	6	7	10	8
Racketeering/Extortion	5	3	8	6	8	8	5	3
Tax Offenses	2	4	2	5	5	6	4	6
Drugs - Communication Facilities	7	2	8	2	1	1	3	7
Sexual Abuse	4	3	1	2	3	3	11	1
Money Laundering	0	3	1	4	4	2	0	0
Prison Offenses	2	1	0	3	3	0	2	2
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	1	1	1	2	2	1	2
Bribery	1	0	0	1	5	0	1	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0
Auto Theft	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Murder	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Offense type not known	0	4	3	0	0	5	0	0
All offenses	179	176	623	346	356	552	556	502

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 Oklahoma by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	45	97	83	97	85	78	77	64
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	117	115	72	37	31	40	27	25
Immigration	26	64	97	39	66	48	35	24
Firearms	54	44	57	48	48	25	33	25
Fraud	34	46	58	34	28	24	34	32
Administration of Justice	31	30	16	15	13	14	20	8
Robbery	13	16	13	12	16	21	11	14
Drugs - Simple Possession	4	13	15	9	12	20	20	21
Larceny	26	20	21	13	9	5	11	6
Child Pornography	10	14	14	9	10	8	10	12
Forgery/Counterfeiting	10	10	13	2	8	7	4	9
Embezzlement	13	6	17	5	9	3	6	3
Drugs - Communication Facilities	9	10	5	4	8	6	4	6
Money Laundering	3	2	4	14	9	9	4	5
Racketeering/Extortion	0	5	3	2	3	3	16	11
Assault	7	5	6	5	4	4	3	7
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	7	3	7	10	3	6	3	1
Sexual Abuse	2	3	0	2	1	6	4	7
Tax Offenses	1	0	5	4	5	1	2	6
Prison Offenses	2	2	4	5	1	4	3	1
Bribery	2	1	0	1	0	3	1	2
Food and Drug Offenses	0	1	6	2	0	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	1	2	1	2	1
Auto Theft	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Arson	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
All offenses	419	508	518	373	374	337	330	292

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 Oklahoma by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	191	33%
Firearms	129	22%
Immigration	82	14%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	52	9%
Child Pornography	28	5%
Other	28	5%
Sex Abuse	12	2%
Assault	11	2%
Money Launder	8	1%
Robbery	8	1%
Prison Offenses	7	1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	6	1%
Drug Possession	4	1%
Administration of Justice	3	1%
Arson	3	1%
Stalking/Harassing	3	1%
Tax	3	1%
Kidnapping	2	<1%
Burglary/Trespass	1	<1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1	<1%
Individual Rights	1	<1%
Murder	1	<1%

All 584 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 Oklahoma by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Hispanic	193	2	33%
Black	171	1	29%
White+MENA	135	1	23%
AIAN	30	0	5%
Asian+NHPI	24	0	4%
Race unknown	31	0	5%

All 584 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 4 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 Oklahoma by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	260	45%
II	91	16%
III	82	14%
IV	40	7%
V	33	6%
VI	78	13%

All 584 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 Oklahoma against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	267	46%
Above the range	40	7%
Below the range, government-sponsored	62	11%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	214	37%
Not known or not comparable	1	<1%

All 584 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 Oklahoma, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	250	84	166	33.6%	66.4%
FY2007	346	131	215	37.9%	62.1%
FY2008	278	118	160	42.4%	57.6%
FY2009	267	114	153	42.7%	57.3%
FY2010	403	186	217	46.2%	53.8%
FY2011	499	209	290	41.9%	58.1%
FY2012	429	178	251	41.5%	58.5%
FY2013	500	172	328	34.4%	65.6%
FY2014	478	204	274	42.7%	57.3%
FY2015	411	141	270	34.3%	65.7%
FY2016	363	141	222	38.8%	61.2%
FY2017	422	152	270	36.0%	64.0%
FY2018	556	250	306	45.0%	55.0%
FY2019	594	299	295	50.3%	49.7%
FY2020	524	240	284	45.8%	54.2%
FY2021	550	243	307	44.2%	55.8%
FY2022	697	339	358	48.6%	51.4%
FY2023	670	354	316	52.8%	47.2%
FY2024	648	353	295	54.5%	45.5%
FY2025	576	302	274	52.4%	47.6%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	247	81	166	32.8%	67.2%
FY2007	320	105	215	32.8%	67.2%
FY2008	266	108	158	40.6%	59.4%
FY2009	244	93	151	38.1%	61.9%
FY2010	358	144	214	40.2%	59.8%
FY2011	426	136	290	31.9%	68.1%
FY2012	368	118	250	32.1%	67.9%
FY2013	469	141	328	30.1%	69.9%
FY2014	407	134	273	32.9%	67.1%
FY2015	374	104	270	27.8%	72.2%
FY2016	332	110	222	33.1%	66.9%
FY2017	387	118	269	30.5%	69.5%
FY2018	502	196	306	39.0%	61.0%
FY2019	514	221	293	43.0%	57.0%
FY2020	473	191	282	40.4%	59.6%
FY2021	534	229	305	42.9%	57.1%
FY2022	627	271	356	43.2%	56.8%
FY2023	590	276	314	46.8%	53.2%
FY2024	555	266	289	47.9%	52.1%
FY2025	499	225	274	45.1%	54.9%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	590	235	355	39.8%	60.2%
FY2023	532	231	301	43.4%	56.6%
FY2024	499	215	284	43.1%	56.9%
FY2025	443	174	269	39.3%	60.7%

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