STATE SUMMARY:

TEXAS
WESTERN DISTRICT NEW CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS
EASTERN DISTRICT CASES BY DISTRICT BY DISTRICT
NORTHERN DISTRICT
25
SOUTHERN DISTRICT

9 8
6 6 6
3
1

HOW DOES YOUR STATE STACK UP?

NEW CRIMINAL CASES ACTIVE CRIMINAL CASES CONVICTIONS
Texas initiated 19 Texas had 74
criminal Texas convicted 45
new criminal human human trafficking cases defendants in human
1 st trafficking cases in 2018
and is tied with New York
1 st active in 2018, ranking
it 1st in the nation for
1 st trafficking cases in 2018,
ranking it 1st in the
for 1st in the nation for number of active cases. nation for number of
number of new cases. defendants convicted.

CRIMINAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING CASES ACTIVE CRIMINAL CASES

8.1% LABOR TRAFFICKING
80

NEW CASES 60
ACTIVE CASES
40
CONVICTIONS
91.9% SEX
20
TRAFFICKING

2016 2017 2018

RESTITUTION NEW CRIMINAL LABOR

TRAFFICKING CASES
Texas ordered 6 defendants
to pay restitution in 2018, 6 defendants ordered to
pay restitution out of 44 In 2018, federal courts in Texas
3 rd
ranking it 3rd in the nation
for restitution orders. convicted defendants.* filed criminal charges against 4
defendants in 2 labor trafficking
PERCENTAGE OF CONVICTED DEFENDANTS
ORDERED TO PAY RESTITUTION
1 7
cases. Texas was of only states
that initiated a criminal labor
NATIONALLY 31.2% trafficking prosecution in 2018.
TEXAS 13.6% Nationally, the most common
*1 of the convicted defendants was in a case where the government did not name a trafficking type of exploited labor in labor
victim in the charging instrument. This conviction has been excluded for purposes of restitution
calculations, as it is uncommon for federal courts to order restitution in a case where the
trafficking cases active in 2018 was
government does not identify a trafficking victim (e.g., sting operation cases). domestic work.
 NATIONAL NUMBERS

KEY FINDINGS NEW CRIMINAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING DEFENDANTS

FROM 2018
CRIMINAL CASES

171
NEW CASES

297
NEW
DEFENDANTS

CIVIL CASES
346 31
Plaintiffs filed only new civil human trafficking suits in federal
CONVICTIONS
courts nationwide. Of the new civil cases, 87.1
% were labor
12.9
trafficking cases and % were sex trafficking cases.

135 CRIMINAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING CASES NEW CRIMINAL CASES

MONTHS NEW CASES ACTIVE CASES CONVICTIONS
4.7% LABOR TRAFFICKING
PRISON
SENTENCE,
800
ON AVERAGE

600

26 400
MONTHS 95.3% SEX
TO RESOLVE 200 TRAFFICKING
CHARGES,
ON AVERAGE 2016 2017 2018

LIMITATIONS: The Report’s findings are not
a prevalence estimate of human trafficking
in the United States but instead serve as
an objective summary of what the federal
system has done to address trafficking. The
Report does not capture data from state
prosecutions, state civil suits, or unreported
human trafficking cases.
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by empowering police and prosecutors to
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