Fact Sheets
Facts and Figures
Personnel
- 94 U.S. marshals, one for each federal court district
- 3,953 deputy U.S. marshals and criminal investigators
- 1,628 administrative employees and detention enforcement
officers
- 5,675 total employees
- 94 districts, 218 sub-offices, four foreign field offices
Budget
- FY 2010 salaries and expenses appropriation: $1.125 billion
Fugitive Operations
- Arrested more than 36,100 federal fugitives, clearing
approximately 39,100 felony warrants in FY 2010
- Marshals-led district task forces arrested more than 81,900
state and local fugitives, clearing approximately 108,200 state and
local felony warrants, in FY 2010
- Marshals-led regional task forces closed more than 52,000 felony
warrants by arrest, including 1,953 homicide warrants, in FY 2010
- Arrested more than 3,600 homicide suspects and more than 4,800
gang members in FY 2010
- Under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006:
- Apprehended 11,072 sex offenders in FY 2010
- Initiated 3,025 cases, issued 426 warrants and arrested 360
people for other violations of the law in FY 2010
- Extradited/deported 805 fugitives from 67 countries in FY 2010
- Captured 211 “15 Most Wanted” fugitives since 1983
- Completed 6,917 special deputations in FY 2010
Judicial Security
- Ensures the safe and secure conduct of judicial proceedings at
more than 400 locations in 94 federal court districts, protecting
more than 2,000 federal judges and approximately 5,250 other court
officials
- Provides protection for federal judges, U.S. attorneys,
assistant U.S. attorneys, personnel, jurors, the visiting public and
prisoners
- Assesses, mitigates and deters approximately 1,400 threats and
inappropriate communications against the judiciary each year
- Provides a 24/7 response capability to review and respond to
threats against the judiciary through the national Threat Management
Center
- Protects the director of the Office of National Drug Control
Policy in Washington, D.C., and when he travels
- Protects the deputy attorney general in Washington, D.C., and
when he travels
- Protects Supreme Court Justices when outside of Washington, D.C.
- Coordinates security for judicial conferences throughout the
United States
- Provides protective details for foreign officials during the
United Nations General Assembly sessions
Asset Forfeiture
- Currently manages nearly 18,000 assets valued at approximately
$3.9 billion
- Cash and financial instruments represent 91 percent of total
value
- Real property represents 3.5 percent of total value
- Vehicles represent 3.4 percent of total value (more than
4,400 vehicles)
- FY 2010 payments made to victims of crime and claimants:
approximately $345 million
- FY 2010 payments made to state and local law enforcement
agencies: approximately $580 million
- More than $6.1 billion shared with participating state and local
law enforcement agencies since FY 1985
- Manages and sells assets seized and forfeited by federal law
enforcement agencies nationwide as part of the Department of Justice
Asset Forfeiture Program
- Compensates victims, supplements funding for law enforcement
initiatives and supports community programs with proceeds generated
from asset sales
- Helps to combat major criminal activity by stripping criminals
of their ill-gotten gains
Prisoner Operations
- Prisoners in daily custody: approximately 63,000
- Housed in state, local and private jails: approximately
50,400
- Housed in federal Bureau of Prisons facilities:
approximately 12,600
- Prisoners received in FY 2010: 225,329
- Agreements with state, local and private jails to house inmates:
1,800
- Houses and transports all federal prisoners from the time they
enter federal custody until they are either acquitted or convicted
and delivered to their designated federal Bureau of Prisons facility
- Assumes custody for all prisoners charged with a federal
offense, no matter which agency made the arrest
Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation
- 356,603 federal prisoner movements in FY 2010 (206,358 by air;
150,245 by ground)
- More than 2,000 non-federal prisoner movements in FY 2010
- Moves prisoners between judicial districts, correctional
institutions and foreign countries
- Transports sentenced prisoners who are in the custody of the
Federal Bureau of Prisons to hearings, court appearances and
detention facilities
- Uses a network of aircraft, cars, vans and buses
Witness Security
- Witnesses: more than 8,300 since 1971
- Family members: more than 9,800 since 1971
- Provides for the security, safety and health of government
witnesses and their authorized family members, whose lives are in
danger as a result of their cooperation with the U.S. government
Special Operations Group
- Performs tactical operations for sensitive and classified
missions involving homeland security, national emergencies, domestic
crises and the intelligence community
- Performs specialties involving high-risk entry, explosive
breaching, sniper/observer, rural operations, evasive driving, less
lethal munitions, waterborne operations and tactical medical support
- Specially trained tactical unit created in 1971
Office of Public Affairs Revised April 15, 2011
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