Western District of Tennessee

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 339
Noncitizens, FY2025: 5%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 373
Detained, FY2025: 58.7%

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	93%316	316
Prison and alternatives	3%9	9
Probation and alternatives	2%6	6
Probation only	2%7	7
Fine only	<1%1	1

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 66 months (mean 87) for the 325 sentenced to prison; 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	35%119	119
Firearms	30%101	101
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	14%46	46
Robbery	7%25	25
Sex Abuse	3%10	10
Child Pornography	2%6	6
Money Launder	2%5	5
Immigration	1%4	4
Assault	1%3	3
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1%3	3
Prison Offenses	1%3	3
Administration of Justice	1%2	2
Arson	1%2	2
Environmental	1%2	2
Stalking/Harassing	1%2	2
Bribery/Corruption	<1%1	1
Extortion/Racketeering	<1%1	1
Food and Drug	<1%1	1
Kidnapping	<1%1	1
Murder	<1%1	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%1	1

All 339 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	128	218	93	141	151	167	148	119
Firearms	163	173	123	120	165	149	105	101
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	47	73	34	31	25	27	33	46
Robbery	27	50	36	31	43	45	29	25
Immigration	20	32	14	3	4	6	4	4
Assault	7	9	6	5	9	11	14	3
Money Launder	13	12	5	2	1	4	9	5
Sex Abuse	2	8	4	4	7	4	2	10
Prison Offenses	4	2	5	4	6	6	9	3
Child Pornography	7	4	2	3	1	5	5	6
Murder	1	6	4	0	5	2	11	1
Administration of Justice	4	6	0	4	2	7	2	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	2	2	1	3	2	9	1
Kidnapping	3	0	1	4	1	3	4	1
Tax	6	2	1	2	0	5	0	0
Individual Rights	0	1	0	3	1	7	2	0
Environmental	1	4	2	0	0	3	1	2
Other	1	0	1	0	2	5	0	0
Burglary/Trespass	1	1	4	2	0	0	0	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
Extortion/Racketeering	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	1
Stalking/Harassing	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	2
Bribery/Corruption	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	1
Arson	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
Drug Possession	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0
Food and Drug	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Commercialized Vice	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
National Defense	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All offenses	445	606	342	363	432	458	390	339

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	95%323	323
Not a U.S. citizen	5%16	16
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

4 of the 339 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black	71%241	241
White+MENA	20%68	68
Hispanic	8%27	27
Race unknown	1%3	3

All 339 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	37%125	125
II	11%38	38
III	18%61	61
IV	9%31	31
V	6%19	19
VI	19%64	64
Category not known	<1%1	1

All 339 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	45%154	154
Above the range	3%11	11
Below the range, government-sponsored	22%76	76
Below the range, not government-sponsored	29%97	97
Not known or not comparable	<1%1	1

All 339 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	373	219	154	58.7%	41.3%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	367	214	153	58.3%	41.7%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	353	200	153	56.7%	43.3%

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 Tennessee, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	460	422	31	7	9
FY2003	508	466	36	6	19
FY2004	547	506	32	9	20
FY2005	642	597	20	25	11
FY2006	508	481	21	6	8
FY2007	551	501	35	15	28
FY2008	606	547	52	7	14
FY2009	643	565	68	10	40
FY2010	678	573	96	9	59
FY2011	640	569	61	10	41
FY2012	580	536	39	5	17
FY2013	689	644	40	5	11
FY2014	493	449	44	0	9
FY2015	489	455	33	1	8
FY2016	466	449	15	2	5
FY2017	385	370	14	1	3
FY2018	445	414	31	0	20
FY2019	606	553	52	1	32
FY2020	342	315	27	0	14
FY2021	363	347	16	0	3
FY2022	432	418	14	0	4
FY2023	458	435	23	0	6
FY2024	390	371	19	0	4
FY2025	339	323	16	0	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 Tennessee, 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	460	324	29	46	54	2	5	78%	0
FY2003*	508	402	21	25	53	4	3	84%	3
FY2004	547	452	13	28	45	7	2	85%	2
FY2005*	642	500	34	36	69	2	1	83%	0
FY2006	508	390	27	39	50	1	1	82%	1
FY2007	551	444	24	38	44	1	0	85%	2
FY2008*	606	504	38	17	45	2	0	89%	3
FY2009	643	537	35	35	34	2	0	89%	1
FY2010*	678	568	44	18	45	2	1	90%	3
FY2011	640	541	42	29	27	1	0	91%	3
FY2012	580	504	24	20	30	2	0	91%	1
FY2013	689	583	29	39	37	1	0	89%	5
FY2014	493	398	19	39	35	2	0	85%	1
FY2015	489	410	30	17	32	0	0	90%	0
FY2016	466	394	35	17	20	0	0	92%	0
FY2017	385	335	24	12	14	0	0	93%	0
FY2018	445	401	27	8	9	0	0	96%	0
FY2019*	606	538	22	17	29	0	0	92%	4
FY2020	342	305	19	5	13	0	0	95%	1
FY2021	363	331	17	6	9	0	0	96%	1
FY2022	432	394	26	9	3	0	0	97%	1
FY2023	458	425	11	6	15	1	0	95%	1
FY2024*	390	363	13	5	9	0	0	96%	4
FY2025	339	316	9	6	7	1	0	96%	0

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 Tennessee, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	53	24	455	67	42	352
FY2003*	60	32	505	71	41	423
FY2004	67	41	545	79	57	463
FY2005*	56	37	641	67	46	530
FY2006	62	37	505	76	54	409
FY2007	66	45	551	79	57	456
FY2008*	70	46	606	79	57	532
FY2009	65	41	643	78	57	534
FY2010*	63	36	677	73	48	573
FY2011	69	44	640	78	51	559
FY2012	69	46	580	79	57	502
FY2013	72	46	689	83	57	593
FY2014	63	37	493	75	51	406
FY2015	57	36	489	65	46	422
FY2016	63	45	466	71	57	405
FY2017	71	46	385	79	51	345
FY2018	67	48	445	69	51	428
FY2019*	72	46	606	77	50	560
FY2020	78	48	342	82	57	324
FY2021	81	60	363	84	60	348
FY2022	80	60	432	82	60	420
FY2023	86	70	458	90	72	436
FY2024*	96	64	390	99	70	376
FY2025	84	63	339	87	66	325

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 Tennessee by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Firearms	44	121	176	181	149	159	185	244
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	162	136	144	179	121	152	175	182
Fraud	80	90	73	95	100	88	96	76
Larceny	21	28	31	40	19	20	15	6
Forgery/Counterfeiting	47	31	21	19	7	14	14	7
Immigration	9	19	20	11	8	28	14	40
Robbery	19	12	19	17	19	13	15	7
Pornography/Prostitution	12	6	8	22	18	13	11	10
Administration of Justice	10	6	10	15	8	8	9	13
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	1	11	12	10	12	7	8	11
Money Laundering	11	13	5	9	4	4	7	2
Embezzlement	4	7	7	6	11	3	10	6
Racketeering/Extortion	5	2	2	11	5	8	11	8
Tax Offenses	4	0	1	6	6	7	5	5
Prison Offenses	4	6	3	5	5	4	1	3
Sexual Abuse	1	0	4	1	1	2	12	3
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	2	3	1	0	6	2	1	8
Assault	4	0	3	2	2	0	6	2
Auto Theft	6	6	1	1	1	2	0	1
Civil Rights Offenses	3	1	4	1	2	2	1	4
Drugs - Communication Facilities	5	0	0	0	0	8	2	2
Drugs - Simple Possession	2	4	2	4	0	1	2	1
Bribery	0	0	0	1	1	2	4	1
Arson	1	1	0	2	0	2	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Antitrust Violations	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	460	508	547	642	508	551	606	643

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 Tennessee by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	219	194	199	293	178	196	187	104
Firearms	205	214	171	185	147	142	152	149
Fraud	89	84	54	60	43	44	51	46
Immigration	59	41	17	11	9	8	5	3
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	14	14	8	24	19	27	8	7
Administration of Justice	10	15	17	14	14	7	8	10
Child Pornography	18	10	16	12	14	11	7	7
Larceny	12	8	10	16	10	10	6	14
Forgery/Counterfeiting	7	14	13	15	5	5	1	11
Robbery	10	10	18	12	6	2	6	3
Racketeering/Extortion	3	6	16	8	6	2	4	9
Prison Offenses	4	4	3	15	7	6	3	8
Money Laundering	7	2	6	5	5	8	3	1
Sexual Abuse	3	1	3	5	8	9	4	3
Tax Offenses	3	5	4	5	4	2	5	1
Embezzlement	2	7	6	1	1	3	2	2
Assault	1	2	7	1	3	2	2	4
Drugs - Simple Possession	3	2	5	2	1	3	1	0
Civil Rights Offenses	3	1	2	1	1	0	1	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	1	1	2	1	0	2	2
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0
Auto Theft	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	0
Bribery	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	0
Murder	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
National Defense Offenses	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	678	640	580	689	493	489	466	385

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 Tennessee by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	119	35%
Firearms	101	30%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	46	14%
Robbery	25	7%
Sex Abuse	10	3%
Child Pornography	6	2%
Money Launder	5	2%
Immigration	4	1%
Assault	3	1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	3	1%
Prison Offenses	3	1%
Administration of Justice	2	1%
Arson	2	1%
Environmental	2	1%
Stalking/Harassing	2	1%
Bribery/Corruption	1	<1%
Extortion/Racketeering	1	<1%
Food and Drug	1	<1%
Kidnapping	1	<1%
Murder	1	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1	<1%

All 339 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 Tennessee by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Share
Black	241	71%
White+MENA	68	20%
Hispanic	27	8%
Race unknown	3	1%

All 339 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 Tennessee by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	125	37%
II	38	11%
III	61	18%
IV	31	9%
V	19	6%
VI	64	19%
Category not known	1	<1%

All 339 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 Tennessee against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	154	45%
Above the range	11	3%
Below the range, government-sponsored	76	22%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	97	29%
Not known or not comparable	1	<1%

All 339 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 Tennessee, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	614	291	323	47.4%	52.6%
FY2007	676	359	317	53.1%	46.9%
FY2008	657	375	282	57.1%	42.9%
FY2009	739	409	330	55.3%	44.7%
FY2010	645	350	295	54.3%	45.7%
FY2011	455	256	199	56.3%	43.7%
FY2012	481	243	238	50.5%	49.5%
FY2013	565	257	308	45.5%	54.5%
FY2014	389	186	203	47.8%	52.2%
FY2015	459	224	235	48.8%	51.2%
FY2016	404	240	164	59.4%	40.6%
FY2017	487	278	209	57.1%	42.9%
FY2018	636	348	288	54.7%	45.3%
FY2019	645	424	221	65.7%	34.3%
FY2020	371	228	143	61.5%	38.5%
FY2021	427	259	168	60.7%	39.3%
FY2022	434	260	174	59.9%	40.1%
FY2023	358	200	158	55.9%	44.1%
FY2024	362	232	130	64.1%	35.9%
FY2025	373	219	154	58.7%	41.3%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	608	285	323	46.9%	53.1%
FY2007	666	349	317	52.4%	47.6%
FY2008	649	367	282	56.5%	43.5%
FY2009	702	372	330	53.0%	47.0%
FY2010	612	317	295	51.8%	48.2%
FY2011	419	220	199	52.5%	47.5%
FY2012	471	233	238	49.5%	50.5%
FY2013	559	251	308	44.9%	55.1%
FY2014	385	182	203	47.3%	52.7%
FY2015	452	218	234	48.2%	51.8%
FY2016	402	238	164	59.2%	40.8%
FY2017	478	269	209	56.3%	43.7%
FY2018	596	325	271	54.5%	45.5%
FY2019	617	398	219	64.5%	35.5%
FY2020	359	220	139	61.3%	38.7%
FY2021	425	257	168	60.5%	39.5%
FY2022	429	257	172	59.9%	40.1%
FY2023	354	196	158	55.4%	44.6%
FY2024	360	230	130	63.9%	36.1%
FY2025	367	214	153	58.3%	41.7%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	425	254	171	59.8%	40.2%
FY2023	348	192	156	55.2%	44.8%
FY2024	351	222	129	63.2%	36.8%
FY2025	353	200	153	56.7%	43.3%

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