This report presents statistics on U.S. citizens and non-U.S. citizens prosecuted in U.S. district courts, by type of offenses, sentences received for those offenses, and offender demographics. It also describes the citizenship status of persons admitted to and held in federal prison at year-end by offense type, country of citizenship, and judicial district of commitment.
Findings are based on the Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP), which began in 1979. The FJSP provides national statistics on the federal response to crime. Data were collected from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts? Probation and Pretrial Services Office, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Non-U.S. Citizens in the Federal Criminal Justice System, 1998?2018 (NCJ 252647) was written by former BJS Statistician Suzanne M. Strong, Ph.D., and BJS Statistician Mark Motivans, Ph.D. The report, related documents, and additional information about BJS?s statistical publications and programs are available on the BJS website at bjs.ojp.gov.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Doris J. James is the acting director.
For more information on BJS's publications, data collections, data analysis tools, and funding opportunities,?visit?BJS online.
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