| Ten Percent Drop in Federal Sentences of One Year or More |
| (07 Oct 2014)
The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during August 2014 the government reported 13,265 new convictions.
On these, only 3,706 of the defendants -- 28 percent, or just over one in four -- were reported to have received prison sentences of one year or more. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), the number of defendants receiving prison sentences of at least one year is down 1 percent over the previous month and down 10.4 percent from five years ago. On the other hand, the total number of criminal convictions has been nearly constant, falling by only 1.0 percent in the same five year period.
In per capita terms, New Mexico led the nation with 6,214 sentences of one year or more per 10 million population, over four times the national average of 1,414 per 10 million. Other judicial districts with high counts of such convictions were the Southern District of California, the Western District of Texas, Arizona, the Southern District of Texas and North Dakota, all of which exceeded three times the national average. For more details see the report at: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/crim/366/In addition to this report on sentencing, TRAC continues to offer free monthly reports on program categories such as immigration, drugs, weapons, white collar crime and terrorism. TRAC's reports also monitor selected government agencies such as the FBI, ATF, DHS and the IRS. For the latest information on prosecutions and convictions through June 2014, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/Even more detailed criminal enforcement information for the period from FY 1986 through August 2014 is available to TRACFed subscribers via the Express and Going Deeper tools. Go to http://tracfed.syr.edu for more information. Customized reports for a specific agency, district, program, lead charge or judge are available via the TRAC Data Interpreter, either as part of a TRACFed subscription or on a per-report basis. Go to http://trac.syr.edu/interpreter to start. To keep up with TRAC, follow us on Twitter @tracreports or like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/tracreportsTRAC is self-supporting and depends on foundation grants, individual contributions and subscription fees for the funding needed to obtain, analyze and publish the data we collect on the activities of the US Federal government. To help support TRAC's ongoing efforts, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/sponsor/ |
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