Fig 1.
We combine information from the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC), the Federal Judicial Center (FJC), the Public Access to Court Electronic Records System (PACER) and Wikipedia in order to create our database, Judicial System Transparency through Federal Archive Inferred Records (JUSTFAIR). With nearly 600,000 federal district court records from 2001—2018, JUSTFAIR is the first large-scale, free, public database that links information about criminal defendants and their demographic characteristics with information about their federal crimes, their sentences, and crucially, the sentencing judges.