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# Federal Robbery Sentences in the Southern District of Mississippi, FY2016–2025
- URL: https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-robbery-sentences-southern-district-of-mississippi/
- Published: 2026-11-04T11:04:01.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-04T11:04:01.000Z
- Description: 67 of the 68 people sentenced for robbery in the Southern District of Mississippi in fiscal years 2016 to 2025 received a prison term, and the median was 84 months (7 years). In all 94 districts the median was 90 months. A mandatory minimum applied to 28 of the 68 (41%).
- Author: Jocelyn C. Stewart
- Tags: Understanding Trends, Federal

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**In brief:** 67 of the 68 people sentenced for robbery in the Southern District of Mississippi in fiscal years 2016 to 2025 received a prison term, and the median was 84 months (7 years). In all 94 districts the median was 90 months. A mandatory minimum applied to 28 of the 68 (41%).

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 68 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/).

## Mandatory Minimums in Robbery Cases

A mandatory minimum prison term applied to 28 of the 68 people (41%). A mandatory minimum is a floor set by statute for certain offenses.

The sheet does not give a comparison figure for all districts, so this post reports the 41% on its own.

## How Long Prison Terms Were

Only 1 of the 68 people did not receive prison, and 0 received probation only. The median prison term was 84 months. A quarter received 151.5 months or more, and a quarter received 57.5 months or less.

For robbery cases in all districts, 99% were sent to prison and the median was 90 months. The median here was a little lower. For every offense type in this district, the median was 48 months.

## More Sentences Within the Range Than Nationally

The guideline range is the range the court calculates under the Sentencing Guidelines. 71% of the 68 people (48) were sentenced within it. In all districts the share was 40%, and for every offense type in this district it was 69%.

16% (11) were below the range without a government request, and 7% (5) were below it at the government's request. 6% (4) were above it.

## Pleas and Trials

64 of the 68 people (94%) pleaded guilty, and 4 were convicted after a trial. The rate for all districts was 95%.

The median prison term after a guilty plea was 84 months. After a trial it was 181.5 months, based on only 4 people. 95% of the guilty pleas had a written plea agreement, and 5% were straight pleas.

## The Guideline and Case Share

"Robbery" is the Commission's offense type, and all 68 cases had the same primary guideline, §2B3.1 (Robbery). These cases were 2% of the 3,361 people sentenced in the district.

## Fines, Restitution, and Release

A fine was ordered for 36 people (53%), and restitution for 40 (59%). 67 (99%) were ordered to serve supervised release after prison, with a median term of 36 months.

On criminal history, 41% were in category I, the lowest, and 4% were in category VI, the highest.

## The Yearly Counts

Fiscal years 2016 to 2019 have 23 people, and fiscal years 2020 to 2025 have 45\. The largest year was 2020, with 14 people. Years from 2023 to 2025 have 4 to 6 people.

Medians run from 60 months in 2022 to 183 months in 2024\. These are small groups, and the table does not show a trend. Each fiscal year starts October 1 and ends the next September.

| Fiscal year | People sentenced | Median prison | Pleaded guilty |
| ----------- | ---------------- | ------------- | -------------- |
| 2016        | 1                | 171 months    | 1 of 1         |
| 2017        | 6                | 69 months     | 6 of 6         |
| 2018        | 4                | 109.5 months  | 4 of 4         |
| 2019        | 12               | 96 months     | 100%           |
| 2020        | 14               | 92.5 months   | 79%            |
| 2021        | 9                | 121 months    | 9 of 9         |
| 2022        | 8                | 60 months     | 8 of 8         |
| 2023        | 6                | 106.5 months  | 5 of 6         |
| 2024        | 4                | 183 months    | 4 of 4         |
| 2025        | 4                | 69 months     | 4 of 4         |

## What Is Outside the Data

The Commission lists only people who were convicted and sentenced. Acquittals and dismissals are absent, and the prison terms are those imposed, not those served.

Keesler AFB, Mississippi, is in this district and appears in this site's court-martial data. Courts-martial are tried in military courts, not in this federal district court.

### How We Counted

Everyone sentenced in federal court in the Southern District of Mississippi (U.S. Sentencing Commission district label "Mississippi South") in fiscal years 2016 to 2025 whose offense type was "Robbery" (68). 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.

**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)
- [Federal Sentences in the Southern District of Mississippi, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-district-southern-district-of-mississippi/) (overview)
- [Federal Drug Trafficking Sentences in the Southern District of Mississippi, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-drug-trafficking-sentences-southern-district-of-mississippi/) (same district, other offense type)
- [Federal Firearms Sentences in the Southern District of Mississippi, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-firearms-sentences-southern-district-of-mississippi/) (same district, other offense type)
- [Federal Fraud, Theft, and Embezzlement Sentences in the Southern District of Mississippi, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-fraud-theft-embezzlement-sentences-southern-district-of-mississippi/) (same district, other offense type)
- [Federal Immigration Offense Sentences in the Southern District of Mississippi, FY2016–2025](https://www.bodiesburied.com/trends/federal-immigration-sentences-southern-district-of-mississippi/) (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.