US Sentencing Commission releases more “Quick Facts” data on wide range of topics
I have been noticing in recent weeks that the US Sentencing Commission has been releasing a lot more new short data reports in the form of its “Quick Facts” publications. (Long-time readers have long heard me praise the USSC for producing these convenient and informative short data documents, which are designed to “give readers basic facts about a single area of federal crime in an easy-to-read, two-page format”). Here is just a sampling of recent postings by the USSC on this “Quick Facts” page:
- NEW Career Offenders (July 2023)
- NEW Non-U.S. Citizens (July 2023)
- NEW Women in the Federal Offender Population (July 2023)
- NEW Native Americans in the Federal Offender Population (June 2023)
- NEW Methamphetamine Trafficking (June 2023)
- NEW Powder Cocaine Trafficking (July 2023)
- NEW Crack Cocaine Trafficking (June 2023)
- NEW Heroin Trafficking (July 2023)
- NEW Marijuana Trafficking (July 2023)
- NEW Oxycodone Trafficking (July 2023)
- NEW Sexual Abuse (June 2023)
- NEW Child Pornography (June 2023)
- NEW Illegal Reentry (June 2023)
- NEW Alien Smuggling (June 2023)
There are so many notable and interesting little data items in these little documents, and I welcome folks highlighting any interesting data points in the comments. I am eager to flag the continued drop in federal prosecutions for marijuana trafficking, as the FY 2022 shows only 806 persons being federal sentenced for this offense. (I co-authored an article a few years ago looking at federal marijuana data, titled “How State Reforms Have Mellowed Federal Enforcement of Marijuana Prohibition,” which noted that a decade ago nearly 7000 persons were being federal sentenced for marijuana trafficking.)