> ## 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 2024 - URL: https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-guideline-2h1-1-offenses-involving-individual-rights-fy2024/ - Published: 2026-11-04T10:27:59.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-04T10:27:59.000Z - Description: Fiscal year 2024 had the most people sentenced under §2H1.1, "Offenses Involving Individual Rights," of any year from 2016 to 2025: 97. Of the 97, 85 (88%) received a prison term, and the median prison term was 24 months (2 years). Only 18% of sentences were within the guideline range. - 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: FY2024 **In brief:** Fiscal year 2024 had the most people sentenced under §2H1.1, "Offenses Involving Individual Rights," of any year from 2016 to 2025: 97\. Of the 97, 85 (88%) received a prison term, and the median prison term was 24 months (2 years). Only 18% of sentences were within the guideline range. 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 97 people sentenced in federal court in fiscal year 2024\. 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/). ## The Largest Year Under This Guideline The Sentencing Commission recorded 97 people sentenced with §2H1.1 as the primary guideline in fiscal year 2024\. The next largest year in the table was 69 people, in fiscal year 2023. A prison term went to 85 of the 97 (88%), and 8 (8%) received probation only, with no prison or other confinement. The median prison term was 24 months. A quarter received 60 months or more, and a quarter received 12 months or less. ## Trials Were More Common Than in Most Years A total of 65 of the 97 people (67%) pleaded guilty, and 32 were convicted after a trial. The 67% guilty plea share is the lowest in the table of years. The median prison term after a guilty plea was 27 months. After a trial it was 24 months, based on 30 people convicted at trial and sent to prison. In this year the trial median was not higher than the plea median. All of the guilty pleas (100%) had a written plea agreement. ## Few Sentences Were Within the Guideline Range The guideline range is the range the Guidelines Manual calculates for a case. In fiscal year 2024, 18% of sentences (17 people) were within it. The largest group, 51% (49 people), was below the range without a government request. Another 30% (29) were below the range at the government's request, and 2% (2) were above it. A mandatory minimum prison term applied to 2 of the 97 people with that information recorded (2%). ## Supervised Release, Fines, and Restitution Supervised release followed prison for 84 people (87%), with a median term of 36 months. A fine was ordered for 17 people (18%), and restitution for 17 (18%). ## All Years and All Guidelines For fiscal years 2016 to 2025 combined, 544 people were sentenced under §2H1.1\. Of those, 79% went to prison, the median was 27 months, 76% pleaded guilty, and 24% of sentences were within the range. The 2024 median was lower than the all-years median, and the share within the range was lower. For every guideline in fiscal year 2024, 61,678 people were sentenced, the median prison term was 30 months, 97% pleaded guilty, and 46% of sentences were within the range. In fiscal year 2023, §2H1.1 had a median of 36 months. In fiscal year 2025 it was 21 months. The table lists every year. | 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 the Data Does Not Cover Only people who were convicted and sentenced are counted. Acquittals and dismissals are not in the data, so a count of 32 trial convictions says nothing about how many trials ended another way. The fiscal year ran from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024. In this year, 93% of these people were in criminal history category I and 1% in category VI. The approved crosswalk has no close court-martial counterpart. The records cannot show why this year was larger than the others. ### How We Counted Everyone sentenced in federal court in fiscal year 2024 whose primary sentencing guideline was §2H1.1 (97), 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. **Mandatory minimum sentences.** Many federal statutes on drugs, images of child exploitation, child sex abuse, and firearms carry mandatory minimum prison terms. The UCMJ has mandatory minimums only for a few offenses (a dishonorable discharge or dismissal for rape and sexual assault, and life for premeditated murder). Federal sentences for these offenses are partly set by Congress, not by the judge. ## 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 2023](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-guideline-2h1-1-offenses-involving-individual-rights-fy2023/) (previous or next fiscal year) - [§2H1.1 Offenses Involving Individual Rights: Federal Sentences, Fiscal Year 2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-guideline-2h1-1-offenses-involving-individual-rights-fy2025/) (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.