Comparison of Connecticut and National Criminal Cases in Federal Courts

The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s website provides detailed statistics on criminal cases and sentencing by federal courts, broken down by state, district, and circuit. The Connecticut report shows that for the federal 2010 fiscal year, the most common primary offense category was drugs (58.2%). The next most common primary categories in Connecticut were fraud (13.8%), firearms (9.1%), and non-fraud white collar (8.2%). Nationally, the most common primary categories were immigration (34.4%), followed by drugs (28.9%), fraud (9.7%), and firearms (9.6%). In Connecticut, immigration was the primary offense category in 4.0% of cases.

Among other things, other reports on the website provide statistics on matters broken down by primary offense category, such as (1) guilty pleas and trials; (2) length of imprisonment; and (3) a comparison of sentences imposed to the federal guideline range.