> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.bodiesburied.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Federal Environmental Offense Sentences in the District of Oregon, FY2016–2025 - URL: https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-environmental-sentences-district-of-oregon/ - Published: 2026-11-04T11:09:08.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-04T11:09:08.000Z - Description: In the District of Oregon, 24 people were sentenced for environmental offenses in fiscal years 2016 to 2025. 79% received probation only, and 13% received a prison term. A fine was ordered for 54%. All 24 pleaded guilty. - Author: Jocelyn C. Stewart - Tags: Understanding Trends, Federal [Trends](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/) › [Federal Prosecution Analysis](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal/) › [Federal Sentences in the District of Oregon, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-district-district-of-oregon/) › Environmental Offense: District of Oregon **In brief:** In the District of Oregon, 24 people were sentenced for environmental offenses in fiscal years 2016 to 2025\. 79% received probation only, and 13% received a prison term. A fine was ordered for 54%. All 24 pleaded guilty. Updated November 4, 2026 · Sources: U.S. Sentencing Commission and Federal Judicial Center, fiscal years 2016–2025 This post uses the U.S. Sentencing Commission's records of 24 people sentenced in federal court in fiscal years 2016 to 2025\. Acquittals and dismissals come from a second source, the Federal Judicial Center's records of 753,808 federal defendants whose cases ended in fiscal years 2016 to 2025\. It is part of the [Federal Prosecution Analysis](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal/) series, which builds on [Military Moves Toward Sentencing Guidelines to Mirror the Federal System](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/military-sentencing-guidelines-federal-system/). How the numbers were built: [How the Federal Comparison Data Was Built](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-data-methodology/). ## Probation and Fines Rather Than Prison 19 of the 24 people (79%) received probation only, with no prison or other confinement. 3 (13%) received a prison term. In all 94 federal districts, 28% were sent to prison. A fine was ordered for 13 people (54%), and restitution for 5 (21%). Environmental cases were less than 1% of the 4,319 people sentenced in the district. ## The Few Prison Terms Among the 3 people sent to prison, the median prison term was 1 month. A quarter received 2 months or more, and a quarter received 1 month or less. For all districts, the median was 5 months. The median for all offenses in the District of Oregon was 32 months. With 3 people, the median describes only those cases. Prison terms are the terms imposed, not time served. | Fiscal year | People sentenced | Median prison | Pleaded guilty | | ----------- | ---------------- | ------------- | -------------- | | 2016 | 2 | 1 months | 2 of 2 | | 2017 | 3 | n/a | 3 of 3 | | 2018 | 1 | n/a | 1 of 1 | | 2019 | 1 | n/a | 1 of 1 | | 2020 | 5 | n/a | 5 of 5 | | 2021 | 6 | n/a | 6 of 6 | | 2022 | 1 | n/a | 1 of 1 | | 2024 | 1 | n/a | 1 of 1 | | 2025 | 4 | 3 months | 4 of 4 | ## Which Environmental Guidelines Applied The most common primary guideline was §2Q2.1 (Offenses Involving Fish, Wildlife, and Plants), with 10 people. §2Q1.2 (Mishandling of Hazardous or Toxic Substances or Pesticides) had 7, §2Q1.3 (Mishandling of Other Environmental Pollutants) had 3, and §2Q1.6 (Hazardous or Injurious Devices on Federal Lands) had 1. ## Guilty Pleas All 24 people (100%) pleaded guilty, and none was convicted after a trial. 96% of the guilty pleas had a written plea agreement and 0% were straight pleas with no agreement. A mandatory minimum applied to 0 of the 22 people with that information recorded. ## Guideline Range and Supervised Release Of the 23 people with the information, 22% (5) were sentenced within the guideline range. Below the range at the government's request was 61% (14), below it without a government request was 17% (4), and none was above the range. Across all districts, 50% were within the range, and across all offenses in this district, 22%. Only 1 person (4%) was ordered to serve supervised release, with a term of 12 months. Supervised release follows prison, and only 3 people were sent to prison. ## Criminal History and Counts by Year By criminal history, 73% were in the lowest category and 0% in the highest. Court-martial records have no criminal history field. 7 people were sentenced in fiscal years 2016 to 2019, and 17 in fiscal years 2020 to 2025\. The fiscal year runs October 1 to the end of September. Most yearly medians show n/a because too few people went to prison. The table has no row for fiscal year 2023. ## What the Records Cannot Show The fine amounts are not in the records, and neither are the amounts paid as restitution. The data counts only people who were convicted and sentenced. Acquittals and dismissals are not included. The records do not describe the conduct, the harm, or the company or individual involved, so they cannot explain the sentences. ### How We Counted Everyone sentenced in federal court in the District of Oregon (U.S. Sentencing Commission district label "Oregon") in fiscal years 2016 to 2025 whose offense type was "Environmental" (24). Offense types are the Commission's OFFGUIDE categories. Federal fiscal years run from October 1 to September 30\. No person, judge, or lawyer is identified in any of these records. ### What to Keep in Mind **No parole in federal prison; credit for good conduct.** Federal prison has no parole for crimes committed on or after November 1, 1987\. A federal prisoner can earn up to 54 days of good conduct credit for each year of the sentence the judge imposed, which is about 15%. Some federal prisoners can also earn First Step Act time credits, but many offenses make a person ineligible. The numbers in this post are the sentences judges imposed, not the time people actually served. **Federal supervised release.** Most federal prison sentences are followed by a term of supervised release that the judge sets as part of the sentence. A person who violates it can be sent back to prison. A court-martial cannot sentence anyone to supervision after release. Military parole and mandatory supervised release are decided later by a board, not by the judge at trial. **Who decides the sentence, and under what rules.** Federal judges sentence every federal case. They must calculate the Sentencing Guidelines range, which is advisory, and must impose any mandatory minimum the statute requires unless an exception applies. In courts-martial, the accused could choose sentencing by members until the rules changed. For cases in which every guilty finding is for an offense committed after December 27, 2023, a military judge sentences alone, within sentencing parameters. Courts-martial tried in 2024 and later include both old-rule and new-rule cases, and the data cannot tell them apart. **Time periods.** Federal numbers are by federal fiscal year (October 1 to September 30), based on the sentencing date. The military numbers are by trial date. Neither source has the date of the offense, so a change in law shows up in either data set gradually. **How life sentences and "time served" are counted.** In the federal numbers, a life sentence is counted as 470 months, and any other sentence longer than 470 months is counted as just under 470 months. A sentence of "time served" is counted as one day (0.03 months). Averages are affected by these rules; medians much less. ## Related Analysis - [Military Moves Toward Sentencing Guidelines to Mirror the Federal System](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/military-sentencing-guidelines-federal-system/) (the background article) - [Federal Prosecution Analysis](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal/) (all federal posts) - [How the Federal Comparison Data Was Built](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-data-methodology/) (sources and method) - [Federal Sentences in the District of Oregon, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-district-district-of-oregon/) (overview) - [Federal Drug Trafficking Sentences in the District of Oregon, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-drug-trafficking-sentences-district-of-oregon/) (same district, other offense type) - [Federal Firearms Sentences in the District of Oregon, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-firearms-sentences-district-of-oregon/) (same district, other offense type) - [Federal Immigration Offense Sentences in the District of Oregon, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-immigration-sentences-district-of-oregon/) (same district, other offense type) - [Federal Fraud, Theft, and Embezzlement Sentences in the District of Oregon, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-fraud-theft-embezzlement-sentences-district-of-oregon/) (same district, other offense type) - [U.S. Sentencing Commission, Individual Offender Datafiles](https://www.ussc.gov/research/datafiles/commission-datafiles?ref=bodiesburied.com) (source) - [Federal Judicial Center, Integrated Database (criminal defendants)](https://www.fjc.gov/research/idb?ref=bodiesburied.com) (source) **About the author.** Jocelyn C. Stewart is a retired Army JAG with more than 24 years of trying courts-martial and more than 200 jury trials. She hosts *Where All The Bodies Are Buried* and runs the [Law Office of Jocelyn C. Stewart](https://www.ucmj-defender.com/?ref=bodiesburied.com). This analysis is for education and information only. It is not legal advice, and every case is different.