Western District of Washington

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 346
Noncitizens, FY2025: 24%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 525
Detained, FY2025: 45.7%

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	77%265	265
Prison and alternatives	3%12	12
Probation and alternatives	1%4	4
Probation only	7%23	23
Fine only	12%42	42

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 44 months (mean 60) for the 277 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	34%118	118
Other	14%50	50
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	11%38	38
Firearms	8%26	26
Sex Abuse	8%26	26
Child Pornography	7%24	24
Immigration	4%15	15
Money Launder	4%13	13
Prison Offenses	2%8	8
Assault	2%6	6
Tax	1%4	4
Administration of Justice	1%3	3
Environmental	1%3	3
Arson	1%2	2
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	1%2	2
Manslaughter	1%2	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1%2	2
Robbery	1%2	2
Kidnapping	<1%1	1
Stalking/Harassing	<1%1	1

All 346 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	109	151	99	94	139	124	99	118
Other	101	77	34	100	85	81	70	50
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	65	80	38	53	41	48	52	38
Firearms	54	36	21	36	22	26	22	26
Immigration	83	39	29	9	3	0	9	15
Child Pornography	18	16	5	17	20	8	10	24
Sex Abuse	12	9	8	11	15	17	18	26
Money Launder	23	8	8	7	13	17	14	13
Assault	3	8	4	9	4	6	5	6
Drug Possession	7	15	5	3	1	1	0	0
Prison Offenses	2	6	1	2	2	2	4	8
Stalking/Harassing	2	2	1	8	3	5	3	1
Tax	1	2	4	2	4	5	3	4
Administration of Justice	2	5	2	2	3	2	2	3
Robbery	5	6	1	1	2	1	0	2
Arson	0	1	1	1	4	1	2	2
Bribery/Corruption	0	0	0	0	5	5	1	0
Environmental	2	0	0	0	1	4	1	3
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	1	3	2	0	1	0	2
Food and Drug	4	0	2	0	2	0	1	0
Commercialized Vice	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	2
National Defense	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0
Individual Rights	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Extortion/Racketeering	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
All offenses	507	466	269	358	374	359	317	346

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%248	248
Not a U.S. citizen	24%83	83
Citizenship not known	4%15	15

15 of the 346 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
White+MENA, 5 placed by CrimeDB	41%141	141
Hispanic, 3 placed by CrimeDB	27%94	94
Black	17%60	60
Asian+NHPI, 1 placed by CrimeDB	6%19	19
AIAN	4%15	15
Race unknown	5%17	17

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 346 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 9 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	60%206	206
II	14%47	47
III	11%37	37
IV	5%16	16
V	5%16	16
VI	7%24	24

All 346 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	30%104	104
Above the range	1%2	2
Below the range, government-sponsored	55%189	189
Below the range, not government-sponsored	15%51	51

All 346 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	525	240	285	45.7%	54.3%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	489	204	285	41.7%	58.3%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	473	190	283	40.2%	59.8%

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 Washington, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	598	329	160	109	24
FY2003	707	434	166	107	37
FY2004	765	407	217	141	69
FY2005	876	473	282	121	93
FY2006	839	472	266	101	81
FY2007	847	444	286	117	107
FY2008	838	428	254	156	103
FY2009	953	486	290	177	123
FY2010	875	439	260	176	113
FY2011	792	390	253	149	123
FY2012	733	412	217	104	101
FY2013	773	421	277	75	110
FY2014	676	408	220	48	95
FY2015	508	306	152	50	53
FY2016	534	334	154	46	47
FY2017	462	304	122	36	63
FY2018	507	276	160	71	83
FY2019	466	315	102	49	39
FY2020	269	180	73	16	29
FY2021	358	253	52	53	9
FY2022	374	273	68	33	3
FY2023	359	269	67	23	0
FY2024	317	245	57	15	9
FY2025	346	248	83	15	15

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 Washington, 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	598	426	36	15	75	31	15	79%	0
FY2003*	707	507	44	32	74	45	5	78%	0
FY2004	765	569	29	31	71	57	8	79%	0
FY2005*	876	686	44	30	60	52	4	84%	0
FY2006	839	668	40	25	65	38	3	85%	0
FY2007	847	661	52	29	58	44	3	84%	0
FY2008*	838	633	32	16	74	81	2	80%	1
FY2009	953	714	49	21	91	78	0	80%	0
FY2010*	875	681	35	12	69	78	0	82%	0
FY2011	792	621	40	19	69	43	0	83%	0
FY2012	733	593	30	15	48	46	1	85%	0
FY2013	773	640	26	18	52	37	0	86%	0
FY2014	676	552	29	14	38	43	0	86%	0
FY2015	508	418	22	6	27	35	0	87%	0
FY2016	534	424	27	7	39	37	0	84%	1
FY2017	462	388	19	11	16	28	0	88%	0
FY2018	507	428	11	4	24	40	0	87%	0
FY2019*	466	361	16	1	23	65	0	81%	0
FY2020	269	205	10	3	18	33	0	80%	0
FY2021	358	222	3	2	44	87	0	63%	0
FY2022	374	259	7	4	34	70	0	71%	0
FY2023	359	247	4	3	33	72	0	70%	0
FY2024*	317	205	8	8	27	69	0	67%	0
FY2025	346	265	12	4	23	42	0	80%	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 Washington, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	28	12	583	35	24	460
FY2003*	30	12	702	38	24	550
FY2004	30	16	758	38	24	594
FY2005*	36	18	872	43	24	729
FY2006	36	18	836	42	24	708
FY2007	34	18	844	41	24	698
FY2008*	30	15	836	39	24	644
FY2009	32	16	953	42	24	728
FY2010*	33	18	874	41	24	683
FY2011	30	15	792	37	24	636
FY2012	35	21	733	43	27	597
FY2013	37	18	773	44	24	646
FY2014	36	18	676	43	24	551
FY2015	37	16	508	46	30	403
FY2016	38	18	534	48	36	419
FY2017	37	18	462	45	30	378
FY2018	32	11	507	37	18	439
FY2019*	31	12	466	38	24	377
FY2020	30	10	269	37	20	215
FY2021	28	10	358	45	36	225
FY2022	37	21	374	52	36	266
FY2023	44	24	359	63	48	251
FY2024*	39	16	317	58	42	213
FY2025	48	28	346	60	44	277

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 Washington by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	188	217	211	317	318	258	232	294
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	81	83	125	101	71	98	127	145
Fraud	112	116	85	85	95	95	110	96
Immigration	24	37	69	93	81	107	103	123
Firearms	18	34	67	66	63	68	62	68
Larceny	33	49	37	39	38	50	38	47
Administration of Justice	21	13	21	20	38	28	26	20
Pornography/Prostitution	5	28	18	20	16	24	19	28
Drugs - Simple Possession	19	18	15	16	20	19	22	27
Robbery	16	24	21	18	12	25	20	14
Money Laundering	10	14	15	38	18	21	10	19
Embezzlement	22	19	13	13	10	7	6	8
Tax Offenses	4	3	5	6	10	5	11	22
Forgery/Counterfeiting	13	5	9	16	12	0	4	1
Assault	3	7	12	7	4	8	4	5
Drugs - Communication Facilities	5	12	7	3	6	6	8	3
Racketeering/Extortion	5	5	3	5	7	8	5	3
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	1	1	10	0	3	1	9	14
Sexual Abuse	5	3	4	4	3	7	3	7
Prison Offenses	4	6	1	3	3	3	1	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	5	1	3	1	7	0
Gambling/Lottery	0	5	7	1	0	0	0	0
Auto Theft	1	2	0	0	2	1	0	3
Bribery	2	1	0	0	0	0	4	2
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	3	0	1	1	1	1
Arson	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	1
Civil Rights Offenses	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	1
Manslaughter	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0
Murder	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1
Antitrust Violations	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	3	5	1	0	2	0	0	0
All offenses	598	707	765	876	839	847	838	953

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 Washington by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	230	181	175	238	175	154	156	105
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	147	166	101	117	101	80	91	80
Immigration	113	123	101	110	95	53	47	63
Fraud	109	90	118	85	83	43	50	43
Firearms	67	68	91	92	78	67	69	78
Larceny	47	45	41	34	34	21	22	9
Child Pornography	33	15	14	20	22	20	30	28
Administration of Justice	14	15	17	10	7	13	11	2
Drugs - Simple Possession	26	16	10	9	8	7	5	3
Assault	8	7	13	5	10	13	17	8
Money Laundering	17	15	10	7	14	4	10	3
Robbery	14	6	8	5	10	7	3	3
Embezzlement	12	8	9	3	4	5	3	4
Sexual Abuse	4	5	2	4	2	6	7	10
Tax Offenses	5	9	4	6	5	4	3	4
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	8	4	1	7	5	5	0	6
Prison Offenses	1	2	4	3	7	0	6	8
Forgery/Counterfeiting	3	2	7	3	1	2	0	0
Racketeering/Extortion	6	3	1	0	3	1	1	1
Food and Drug Offenses	4	4	0	4	1	0	1	1
National Defense Offenses	0	0	2	0	5	3	0	1
Drugs - Communication Facilities	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
Bribery	1	2	0	2	0	0	1	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	1
Murder	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0
Arson	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
Auto Theft	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
All offenses	875	792	733	773	676	508	534	462

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 Washington by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	118	34%
Other	50	14%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	38	11%
Firearms	26	8%
Sex Abuse	26	8%
Child Pornography	24	7%
Immigration	15	4%
Money Launder	13	4%
Prison Offenses	8	2%
Assault	6	2%
Tax	4	1%
Administration of Justice	3	1%
Environmental	3	1%
Arson	2	1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	2	1%
Manslaughter	2	1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	1%
Robbery	2	1%
Kidnapping	1	<1%
Stalking/Harassing	1	<1%

All 346 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 Washington by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
White+MENA	141	5	41%
Hispanic	94	3	27%
Black	60	0	17%
Asian+NHPI	19	1	6%
AIAN	15	0	4%
Race unknown	17	0	5%

All 346 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 9 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 Washington by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	206	60%
II	47	14%
III	37	11%
IV	16	5%
V	16	5%
VI	24	7%

All 346 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 Washington against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	104	30%
Above the range	2	1%
Below the range, government-sponsored	189	55%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	51	15%

All 346 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 Washington, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	1,116	418	698	37.5%	62.5%
FY2007	1,160	457	703	39.4%	60.6%
FY2008	1,251	421	830	33.7%	66.3%
FY2009	1,278	456	822	35.7%	64.3%
FY2010	1,111	410	701	36.9%	63.1%
FY2011	1,043	412	631	39.5%	60.5%
FY2012	963	453	510	47.0%	53.0%
FY2013	1,011	335	676	33.1%	66.9%
FY2014	780	306	474	39.2%	60.8%
FY2015	792	274	518	34.6%	65.4%
FY2016	735	267	468	36.3%	63.7%
FY2017	737	274	463	37.2%	62.8%
FY2018	801	282	519	35.2%	64.8%
FY2019	704	238	466	33.8%	66.2%
FY2020	471	170	301	36.1%	63.9%
FY2021	658	148	510	22.5%	77.5%
FY2022	474	154	320	32.5%	67.5%
FY2023	449	142	307	31.6%	68.4%
FY2024	412	145	267	35.2%	64.8%
FY2025	525	240	285	45.7%	54.3%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	1,055	358	697	33.9%	66.1%
FY2007	1,075	374	701	34.8%	65.2%
FY2008	1,157	329	828	28.4%	71.6%
FY2009	1,157	335	822	29.0%	71.0%
FY2010	1,005	304	701	30.2%	69.8%
FY2011	938	307	631	32.7%	67.3%
FY2012	877	368	509	42.0%	58.0%
FY2013	908	235	673	25.9%	74.1%
FY2014	705	231	474	32.8%	67.2%
FY2015	752	235	517	31.3%	68.8%
FY2016	685	218	467	31.8%	68.2%
FY2017	673	210	463	31.2%	68.8%
FY2018	719	208	511	28.9%	71.1%
FY2019	659	198	461	30.0%	70.0%
FY2020	450	149	301	33.1%	66.9%
FY2021	651	141	510	21.7%	78.3%
FY2022	474	154	320	32.5%	67.5%
FY2023	448	141	307	31.5%	68.5%
FY2024	403	137	266	34.0%	66.0%
FY2025	489	204	285	41.7%	58.3%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	449	130	319	29.0%	71.0%
FY2023	424	118	306	27.8%	72.2%
FY2024	378	119	259	31.5%	68.5%
FY2025	473	190	283	40.2%	59.8%

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