New (old) data from the USSC

I was very pleased to discover that federal sentencing data junkies have a new treasure trove of information from the US Sentencing Commission: the 2006 Annual Report and the 2006 Statistical Sourcebook. Here’s the USSC’s terse account of these two important new documents:

The 2006 Annual Report presents an overview of major Commission activities and accomplishments for fiscal year 2005.  See the Commission’s 2006 Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics for descriptive figures, tables, and charts, and selected district, circuit, and national sentencing data.

Though the data in the statistical sourcebook covers sentencing outcomes only through September 30, 2006, there are so many intriguing bits of data for anyone eager or able to mine data to really figure out what is happening post-Booker.  I hope in the days ahead to have the time to mine some of these data for interesting stories.