The following chart (showing five years of data ending in September 2012) obtained from TRAC (for all sentence types) illustrates just how widely divergent sentence outcomes can be in the same district: (herculesandtheumpire.com)
Myles R. Allen, an author of the report and a climate scientist at Oxford University, said in an interview that such a structure could help clarify where data ends and societal and political choices begin. (propublica.org)
Key results (noting that this is based on data ending in 2008): (skepticalscience.com)