Memphis sentencing dashboard

Black defendants had the longer adjusted incarceration sentences in the comparison with White defendants.

• The adjusted incarceration-to-serve gap was under one percentage point in the Black–White comparison.
• The largest sentence-length difference in the fixture was about 7%.
• Each racial group was evaluated separately; no combined minority category was used.

Data: 270 qualifying cases · Limited. Synthetic records from December 27, 2017 through December 27, 2025.

This score describes aggregate patterns in the analyzed data. It does not prove racism, discrimination, intent, misconduct, or whether any individual sentence was appropriate.

Black defendants had the longer adjusted incarceration sentences in the comparison with White defendants.

• Black defendants had an adjusted incarceration-to-serve rate about 13 percentage points higher than White defendants in the fixture comparison.
• The largest adjusted sentence-length difference was about 40%.
• The uncertainty range is wide, so the result carries a Limited data-strength label.

Data: 270 qualifying cases · Limited. Synthetic records from December 27, 2017 through December 27, 2025.

This score describes aggregate patterns in the analyzed data. It does not prove racism, discrimination, intent, misconduct, or whether any individual sentence was appropriate.

Black defendants had the higher adjusted incarceration-to-serve rate in the comparison with White defendants.

• Black defendants had an adjusted incarceration-to-serve rate about 27 percentage points higher than White defendants in the fixture comparison.
• The largest adjusted sentence-length difference was about 67%.
• This is a synthetic stress-test result and is not evidence about a real judge.

Data: 270 qualifying cases · Limited. Synthetic records from December 27, 2017 through December 27, 2025.

This score describes aggregate patterns in the analyzed data. It does not prove racism, discrimination, intent, misconduct, or whether any individual sentence was appropriate.

The fixture did not meet the 50-case publication minimum.

• CourtScope withholds the score rather than filling the gap with an estimate.
• Not Enough Data is not a positive or negative finding about the judge.

“Not Enough Data” is not a positive or negative result.

This score describes aggregate patterns in the analyzed data. It does not prove racism, discrimination, intent, misconduct, or whether any individual sentence was appropriate.