> ## 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 2018 - URL: https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-guideline-2h1-1-offenses-involving-individual-rights-fy2018/ - Published: 2026-11-04T10:27:53.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-04T10:27:53.000Z - Description: Fiscal year 2018 had 45 people sentenced under §2H1.1, "Offenses Involving Individual Rights." The median prison term was 27 months (2.2 years), and 33 people (73%) were sent to prison. The median was 12 months after a guilty plea and 60 months after a trial. - 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: FY2018 **In brief:** Fiscal year 2018 had 45 people sentenced under §2H1.1, "Offenses Involving Individual Rights." The median prison term was 27 months (2.2 years), and 33 people (73%) were sent to prison. The median was 12 months after a guilty plea and 60 months after a trial. 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 45 people sentenced in federal court in fiscal year 2018\. 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/). ## Guilty Plea Medians Versus Trial Medians In fiscal year 2018, 34 of the 45 people (76%) pleaded guilty, and 11 were convicted after a trial. The median prison term after a guilty plea was 12 months. After a trial, the median was 60 months, based on 10 people who were convicted at trial and sent to prison. This is a wide gap between the medians. The records show the gap but not the reasons for it, and the trial group is small. Among the guilty pleas, 85% had a written plea agreement and 15% were straight pleas with no agreement. ## Overall Prison Terms A prison term went to 33 of the 45 people (73%). Probation only, with no prison or other confinement, went to 5 (11%). Among those sent to prison, the median prison term was 27 months. A quarter received 60 months or more, and a quarter received 12 months or less. The Commission records the term imposed, not the time served. ## Position Against the Guideline Range A sentence within the guideline range was given to 29% of the 45 people (13). Sentences below the range without a government request were the most common group at 38% (17), and 33% (15) were below the range at the government's request. No sentence was above the range (0%). No mandatory minimum prison term applied to any of the 45 people with that information recorded (0%). ## Supervised Release, Fines, and Restitution After prison, 33 people (73%) were ordered to serve supervised release. The median term was 24 months. A fine was ordered for 6 people (13%), and restitution for 13 (29%). ## Fiscal Year 2018 Alongside Other Years The 45 people in fiscal year 2018 compare with 54 in fiscal year 2017 and 26 in fiscal year 2019\. The median prison term was 24 months in 2017 and 24.5 months in 2019, both lower than the 27 months here. Sentences within the range were 22% in 2017 and 27% in 2019. Across fiscal years 2016 to 2025, §2H1.1 covered 544 people. Of those, 79% went to prison, the median prison term was 27 months, 76% pleaded guilty, and 24% of sentences were within the range. In fiscal year 2018, across every guideline, 69,425 people were sentenced. Their median prison term was 24 months, 97% pleaded guilty, and 51% of sentences were within the range. The table shows 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 Is Not in the Data The Sentencing Commission counts people who were convicted and sentenced. Acquittals and dismissals are left out. Fiscal year 2018 ran from October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018. In this year, 98% of these people were in criminal history category I, and 0% were in category VI. The approved crosswalk has no close court-martial counterpart for this guideline, so the numbers stand on their own as federal data. ### How We Counted Everyone sentenced in federal court in fiscal year 2018 whose primary sentencing guideline was §2H1.1 (45), 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) - [§2H1.1 Offenses Involving Individual Rights: Federal Sentences, Fiscal Year 2019](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-guideline-2h1-1-offenses-involving-individual-rights-fy2019/) (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.