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Federal prosecutions reach record high in FY 2009

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this New York Times article, which is based on this report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), federal prosecutions "reached a record high in the 2009 fiscal year, with the surge driven by a sharp increase in cases filed against immigration violators."  Here are more details from the article in the Times: The 169,612 federal prosecutions were a jump of nearly 9 percent from the previous year, according to Department of Justice data analyzed by a research center at Syracuse University in a new report. Immigration prosecutions were up nearly 16 percent, and made up more than half of all criminal cases brought by the federal government, the report said. Much of the spike, immigration experts say, arises from Bush administration efforts to increase immigration enforcement and to speed prosecutions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 22, 2009 (boomark / email).