US Sentencing Commission releases over 500 pages of public comment on 2025-26 proposed priorities

As reported in this post, the US Sentencing Commission released in early June this Federal Register notice of its possible policy priorities for the guideline amendment cycle ending May 1, 2026, which came with a request for public comment on these priorities. Lots of folks responded to the Commission’s request for comment, nd the USSC yesterday published on at this webpage a “Sample of Public Comment Received on Proposed Priorities.”  That sample is pretty substantial as it runs 535 pages in this pdf file, and is previewed this way on the USSC’s website:

The Commission reviews and catalogs all public comment submissions for future reference and official recordkeeping purposes. A representative sample of public comment is carefully selected, redacted, and posted online to provide the public with the kind of information considered by the Commissioners during their deliberations.

True summer beach reading for a sentencing nerd like me!