Western District of Wisconsin

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

People sentenced, FY2025: 129
Noncitizens, FY2025: 13%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 55
Detained, FY2025: 41.8%

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	95%123	123
Prison and alternatives	1%1	1
Probation and alternatives	1%1	1
Probation only	3%4	4

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 69 months (mean 73) for the 124 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	48%62	62
Firearms	24%31	31
Immigration	7%9	9
Sex Abuse	5%7	7
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	5%6	6
Child Pornography	3%4	4
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	2%2	2
Money Launder	2%2	2
Robbery	2%2	2
Administration of Justice	1%1	1
Other	1%1	1
Prison Offenses	1%1	1
Tax	1%1	1

All 129 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	54	67	47	48	61	65	40	62
Firearms	21	26	30	30	27	31	21	31
Immigration	22	24	24	7	1	9	13	9
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	24	18	9	14	11	6	16	6
Sex Abuse	4	8	6	7	16	8	5	7
Robbery	13	14	8	6	5	2	1	2
Child Pornography	5	8	4	6	9	3	2	4
Tax	2	4	5	5	3	4	3	1
Money Launder	2	4	1	1	5	5	5	2
Prison Offenses	4	3	3	2	0	5	3	1
Administration of Justice	0	2	2	0	1	1	3	1
Environmental	2	2	3	2	0	1	0	0
Other	0	2	3	0	2	2	0	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	0	3	3	0	0	1	2	0
Assault	0	2	1	1	0	1	1	0
Arson	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0
Stalking/Harassing	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
Individual Rights	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Extortion/Racketeering	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Food and Drug	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Kidnapping	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Murder	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
All offenses	156	188	151	132	143	146	117	129

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	87%112	112
Not a U.S. citizen	13%17	17
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

9 of the 129 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black	46%59	59
White+MENA	29%37	37
Hispanic	19%24	24
Asian+NHPI	5%7	7
AIAN	2%2	2

All 129 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	23%30	30
II	15%19	19
III	17%22	22
IV	10%13	13
V	8%10	10
VI	26%34	34
Category not known	1%1	1

All 129 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	26%33	33
Above the range	3%4	4
Below the range, government-sponsored	16%20	20
Below the range, not government-sponsored	56%72	72

All 129 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	55	23	32	41.8%	58.2%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	48	19	29	39.6%	60.4%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	48	19	29	39.6%	60.4%

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 Wisconsin, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	124	111	13	0	5
FY2003	174	153	21	0	14
FY2004	198	167	29	2	11
FY2005	206	184	22	0	12
FY2006	220	192	25	3	10
FY2007	197	178	17	2	7
FY2008	194	165	28	1	13
FY2009	192	145	47	0	17
FY2010	210	173	37	0	20
FY2011	187	152	35	0	18
FY2012	156	117	39	0	21
FY2013	153	128	25	0	15
FY2014	152	137	15	0	9
FY2015	119	102	17	0	11
FY2016	125	113	12	0	8
FY2017	116	101	15	0	9
FY2018	156	123	33	0	22
FY2019	188	158	30	0	24
FY2020	151	124	27	0	24
FY2021	132	121	11	0	7
FY2022	143	136	7	0	1
FY2023	146	130	16	0	9
FY2024	117	101	16	0	13
FY2025	129	112	17	0	9

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 Wisconsin, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	Prison only	Prison and alternatives	Probation and alternatives	Probation only	Fine only	Sentenced to prison	Life sentences
FY2002	124	102	13	6	3	0	93%	2
FY2003*	174	143	22	5	3	1	95%	1
FY2004	198	164	14	5	15	0	90%	0
FY2005*	206	185	4	9	8	0	92%	0
FY2006	220	205	5	3	6	1	95%	0
FY2007	197	186	4	1	6	0	96%	0
FY2008*	194	175	3	2	11	3	92%	2
FY2009	192	174	5	3	7	3	93%	0
FY2010*	210	187	3	2	16	2	90%	0
FY2011	187	159	9	3	15	1	90%	0
FY2012	156	139	6	3	6	2	93%	0
FY2013	153	121	7	3	19	3	84%	0
FY2014	152	112	9	6	22	3	80%	0
FY2015	119	100	3	1	11	4	87%	0
FY2016	125	110	1	2	11	1	89%	0
FY2017	116	91	3	5	13	4	81%	0
FY2018	156	136	0	1	15	4	87%	1
FY2019*	188	174	3	0	10	1	94%	0
FY2020	151	135	3	2	7	4	91%	0
FY2021	132	124	0	0	6	2	94%	0
FY2022	143	135	3	0	4	1	97%	0
FY2023	146	132	1	0	13	0	91%	0
FY2024*	117	105	0	0	11	1	90%	0
FY2025	129	123	1	1	4	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 Wisconsin, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	74	40	124	79	48	115
FY2003*	80	46	174	83	48	165
FY2004	68	45	198	75	57	178
FY2005*	89	62	206	97	71	189
FY2006	85	52	220	89	57	209
FY2007	105	84	196	109	87	189
FY2008*	81	50	194	88	54	178
FY2009	76	48	192	82	57	179
FY2010*	60	41	210	67	48	189
FY2011	53	36	187	59	41	167
FY2012	59	33	156	64	37	145
FY2013	52	36	153	62	44	128
FY2014	40	22	152	51	33	118
FY2015	68	42	119	79	60	103
FY2016	48	30	125	54	36	111
FY2017	62	36	116	77	54	93
FY2018	64	42	156	73	54	136
FY2019*	64	48	188	68	48	177
FY2020	51	36	151	55	46	138
FY2021	66	60	132	71	60	124
FY2022	80	72	143	83	73	138
FY2023	63	54	146	69	60	133
FY2024*	53	48	117	59	54	105
FY2025	70	66	129	73	69	124

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 Wisconsin by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	40	65	70	101	90	93	67	90
Firearms	14	22	30	27	31	31	27	30
Fraud	19	25	38	13	25	23	35	15
Immigration	5	14	11	12	10	7	13	17
Robbery	7	9	11	8	10	8	2	6
Embezzlement	7	7	10	7	7	7	4	1
Pornography/Prostitution	2	1	2	3	7	14	7	7
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	2	2	9	6	7	3	6	5
Prison Offenses	3	6	2	6	7	3	6	4
Forgery/Counterfeiting	4	2	7	7	4	2	4	2
Larceny	7	3	3	3	5	4	4	2
Tax Offenses	3	4	0	1	5	0	3	2
Administration of Justice	2	5	3	1	2	1	2	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	1	0	1	5	0	3	3
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	0	1	4	2	0	1	1
Assault	2	1	0	0	1	0	3	0
Money Laundering	3	1	0	1	0	0	1	1
Auto Theft	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	0
Racketeering/Extortion	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Gambling/Lottery	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Bribery	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Murder	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
Sexual Abuse	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
Arson	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All offenses	124	174	198	206	220	197	194	192

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 Wisconsin by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	87	79	47	48	46	41	41	44
Firearms	31	23	27	26	24	28	27	7
Fraud	29	22	18	24	22	14	11	12
Immigration	20	18	21	15	9	11	8	9
Child Pornography	5	4	7	12	10	4	10	10
Larceny	3	4	4	2	11	2	3	3
Embezzlement	5	6	3	2	1	5	4	3
Prison Offenses	3	0	5	4	6	1	5	3
Tax Offenses	4	7	2	0	4	6	0	3
Administration of Justice	0	1	5	6	0	3	6	2
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	3	4	5	2	4	0	1	4
Robbery	9	3	2	3	2	0	1	1
Forgery/Counterfeiting	3	2	2	0	5	0	0	5
Assault	1	2	1	1	4	0	2	0
Racketeering/Extortion	0	3	1	0	1	0	3	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	1	2	0	2	0	1	2
Arson	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
Auto Theft	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0
Bribery	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	1
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0
Money Laundering	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	3
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	1
Sexual Abuse	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1
Food and Drug Offenses	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
All offenses	210	187	156	153	152	119	125	116

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 Wisconsin by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	62	48%
Firearms	31	24%
Immigration	9	7%
Sex Abuse	7	5%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	6	5%
Child Pornography	4	3%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	2	2%
Money Launder	2	2%
Robbery	2	2%
Administration of Justice	1	1%
Other	1	1%
Prison Offenses	1	1%
Tax	1	1%

All 129 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 Wisconsin by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Share
Black	59	46%
White+MENA	37	29%
Hispanic	24	19%
Asian+NHPI	7	5%
AIAN	2	2%

All 129 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 Wisconsin by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	30	23%
II	19	15%
III	22	17%
IV	13	10%
V	10	8%
VI	34	26%
Category not known	1	1%

All 129 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 Wisconsin against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	33	26%
Above the range	4	3%
Below the range, government-sponsored	20	16%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	72	56%

All 129 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 Wisconsin, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	165	83	82	50.3%	49.7%
FY2007	167	95	72	56.9%	43.1%
FY2008	142	68	74	47.9%	52.1%
FY2009	122	57	65	46.7%	53.3%
FY2010	137	61	76	44.5%	55.5%
FY2011	120	44	76	36.7%	63.3%
FY2012	88	33	55	37.5%	62.5%
FY2013	95	34	61	35.8%	64.2%
FY2014	92	34	58	37.0%	63.0%
FY2015	89	34	55	38.2%	61.8%
FY2016	90	37	53	41.1%	58.9%
FY2017	82	29	53	35.4%	64.6%
FY2018	82	40	42	48.8%	51.2%
FY2019	86	35	51	40.7%	59.3%
FY2020	55	13	42	23.6%	76.4%
FY2021	60	22	38	36.7%	63.3%
FY2022	75	31	44	41.3%	58.7%
FY2023	71	30	41	42.3%	57.7%
FY2024	71	33	38	46.5%	53.5%
FY2025	55	23	32	41.8%	58.2%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	160	79	81	49.4%	50.6%
FY2007	153	82	71	53.6%	46.4%
FY2008	137	64	73	46.7%	53.3%
FY2009	117	52	65	44.4%	55.6%
FY2010	124	48	76	38.7%	61.3%
FY2011	115	39	76	33.9%	66.1%
FY2012	83	29	54	34.9%	65.1%
FY2013	93	32	61	34.4%	65.6%
FY2014	90	32	58	35.6%	64.4%
FY2015	87	32	55	36.8%	63.2%
FY2016	89	36	53	40.4%	59.6%
FY2017	81	28	53	34.6%	65.4%
FY2018	81	39	42	48.1%	51.9%
FY2019	86	35	51	40.7%	59.3%
FY2020	55	13	42	23.6%	76.4%
FY2021	60	22	38	36.7%	63.3%
FY2022	74	30	44	40.5%	59.5%
FY2023	67	26	41	38.8%	61.2%
FY2024	66	28	38	42.4%	57.6%
FY2025	48	19	29	39.6%	60.4%

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	71	27	44	38.0%	62.0%
FY2023	63	24	39	38.1%	61.9%
FY2024	64	27	37	42.2%	57.8%
FY2025	48	19	29	39.6%	60.4%

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