Describes criminal case processing in the federal justice system, including arrest and booking through sentencing and corrections. These statistical tables present the number of suspects arrested and booked by the U.S. Marshals Service, suspects in matters investigated and prosecuted by U.S. attorneys, defendants adjudicated and sentenced in U.S. district court, and characteristics of federal prisoners and offenders under federal supervision.

Data are from the Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP), which collects comprehensive information describing suspects and defendants processed in the federal criminal justice system, and annual data on workload, activities, and outcomes associated with federal criminal cases. The data presented in these tables were collected from  the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA), Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC), U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC), and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

These web-only tables were prepared by the Urban Institute under the supervision of Mark Motivans of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The tables were prepared under BJS grant number 06-BJ-CX-K004. Principal staff at the Urban Institute are William Adams, Julie Samuels, Barbara Parthasarathy, Kamala Mallik Kane, KeDeuk Kim, Jessica Kelly, and Sybil Mendonca.

Section 1: Federal Law Enforcement and Prosecution

Federal Arrests

Table 1.1. Suspects arrested for federal offenses and booked by U.S. Marshals Service, by offense, October 1, 2006 – September 30, 2007
   Map 1.1. Suspects arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administration, by state of arrest, October 1, 2006 –
      September 30, 2007
Table 1.2. Suspects arrested for federal offenses and booked by U.S. Marshals Service, by arresting agency, October 1, 2006 – September 30, 2007
Table 1.3. Characteristics of federal arrestees booked by U.S. Marshals Service, October 1, 2006 – September 30, 2007
Table 1.4. Characteristics of suspects arrested by Drug Enforcement Administration agents, by type of drug, October 1, 2006 – September 30, 2007
Table 1.5. Warrants cleared, by warrant type, October 1, 2006 – September 30, 2007
Table 1.6. Time fro