> ## 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. # §2H1.1 Offenses Involving Individual Rights: Federal Sentences, Fiscal Year 2016 - URL: https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-guideline-2h1-1-offenses-involving-individual-rights-fy2016/ - Published: 2026-11-04T10:27:51.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-04T10:27:51.000Z - Description: In fiscal year 2016, 46 people were sentenced in federal court in cases where §2H1.1, "Offenses Involving Individual Rights," was the primary guideline. Of the 46, 33 (72%) received a prison term, and the median prison term was 30 months (2.5 years). The median was 24 months after a guilty plea and - Author: Jocelyn C. Stewart - Tags: Understanding Trends, Federal [Trends](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/) › [Federal Prosecution Analysis](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal/) › [§2H1.1 Offenses Involving Individual Rights](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-guideline-2h1-1-offenses-involving-individual-rights/) › §2H1.1: FY2016 **In brief:** In fiscal year 2016, 46 people were sentenced in federal court in cases where §2H1.1, "Offenses Involving Individual Rights," was the primary guideline. Of the 46, 33 (72%) received a prison term, and the median prison term was 30 months (2.5 years). The median was 24 months after a guilty plea and 72 months after a trial, but the trial figure rests on 10 people. 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 46 people sentenced in federal court in fiscal year 2016\. 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/). ## Prison Terms After a Plea and After a Trial Of the 46 people, 36 (78%) pleaded guilty and 10 were convicted after a trial. The median prison term after a guilty plea was 24 months. After a trial it was 72 months, based on the 10 people convicted at trial and sent to prison. The trial group is small. The medians describe separate groups of cases, and the records cannot show what produced the difference between them. Among the guilty pleas, 97% had a written plea agreement and 3% were straight pleas with no agreement. ## How Many Received Prison, and for How Long? A prison term was imposed on 33 of the 46 people (72%). Another 5 (11%) received probation only, with no prison or other confinement. Among those sent to prison, the median prison term was 30 months. A quarter received 71 months or more, and a quarter received 14 months or less. These are the terms imposed by the court, not the time actually served. ## Supervised Release, Fines, and Restitution After prison, 32 people (70%) were ordered to serve supervised release. The median supervised release term was 36 months. A fine was ordered for 5 people (11%). Restitution was ordered for 13 (28%). No mandatory minimum prison term applied to any of the 46 people with that information recorded (0%). ## Where Sentences Fell Against the Guideline Range The guideline range is the sentencing range the Guidelines Manual calculates for a case. In fiscal year 2016, 24% of these sentences (11 people) were within the range. Another 39% (18) were below the range at the government's request, and 37% (17) were below the range without a government request. None were above the range (0%). ## Comparison With Other Years and Other Guidelines Across fiscal years 2016 to 2025, 544 people were sentenced under §2H1.1\. Of those, 79% went to prison, the median prison term was 27 months, 76% pleaded guilty, and 24% of sentences were within the guideline range. For everyone sentenced in federal court in fiscal year 2016 under any guideline, there were 67,742 people. Their median prison term was 24 months, 97% pleaded guilty, and 49% of sentences were within the guideline range. Guilty pleas were therefore less common under §2H1.1 than across federal court as a whole, and sentences within the range were also less common. In the next fiscal year, 2017, 54 people were sentenced under this guideline, with a median prison term of 24 months. The table lists every year from 2016 to 2025. | Fiscal year | People sentenced | Median prison | Pleaded guilty | | ----------- | ---------------- | ------------- | -------------- | | 2016 | 46 | 30 months | 78% | | 2017 | 54 | 24 months | 80% | | 2018 | 45 | 27 months | 76% | | 2019 | 26 | 24.5 months | 88% | | 2020 | 50 | 36 months | 80% | | 2021 | 30 | 37.5 months | 73% | | 2022 | 63 | 33 months | 71% | | 2023 | 69 | 36 months | 80% | | 2024 | 97 | 24 months | 67% | | 2025 | 64 | 21 months | 77% | ## What These Numbers Cannot Show The Sentencing Commission counts only people who were convicted and sentenced. Acquittals and dismissals are not in the data, so the numbers say nothing about how many cases ended without a conviction. The fiscal year ran from October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016\. In that year, 93% of these people were in the lowest criminal history category I and 0% were in the highest, category VI. The approved crosswalk has no close court-martial counterpart for this guideline, so this post reports the federal numbers on their own. ### How We Counted Everyone sentenced in federal court in fiscal year 2016 whose primary sentencing guideline was §2H1.1 (46), U.S. Sentencing Commission individual data files. The primary guideline is the one that set the offense level for the most serious count. 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) - [§2H1.1 Offenses Involving Individual Rights: Federal Sentences, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-guideline-2h1-1-offenses-involving-individual-rights/) (overview) - [§2H1.1 Offenses Involving Individual Rights: Federal Sentences, Fiscal Year 2017](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-guideline-2h1-1-offenses-involving-individual-rights-fy2017/) (previous or next fiscal year) - [How Often Federal Judges Sentence Outside the Guideline Range](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-sentences-outside-guideline-range/) - [Mandatory Minimums: How Many Federal Sentences Are Set by Congress](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-mandatory-minimum-sentences/) - [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.