Sentencing Commission News
planned Judicial · Tier 2 · RSS feed · U.S. Sentencing Commission
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What this source is
The United States Sentencing Commission, an independent judicial-branch agency, sets federal sentencing guidelines. Its news index carries releases on guideline amendments, public hearings, and research reports, typically a few items per month.
The U.S. Sentencing Commission, an independent judicial branch agency, publishes releases about federal sentencing guidelines, research findings, and public proceedings.
The United States Sentencing Commission is an independent agency established by statute within the judicial branch of the federal government. The Commission has a core responsibility to develop and maintain the Federal Sentencing Guidelines—a system of rules that guides federal judges in sentencing individuals convicted of federal crimes.
The Commission is structured to represent different perspectives on sentencing policy. Its membership includes federal judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys representing both public defenders and private practice, senior law enforcement officials, and other relevant stakeholders. This diverse composition reflects the Commission's role as an independent policy-making body within the judicial branch.
Beyond developing and updating the sentencing guidelines, the Commission conducts research on sentencing outcomes and trends, publishes statistical reports and empirical studies on federal sentencing, and holds public hearings where interested parties can present views on proposed guideline amendments.
The Commission's news feed publishes official releases and announcements about its work and activities. Releases typically cover proposed guideline amendments and amendments that have been adopted, notices of public hearings and meetings the Commission is conducting, statistical and research reports the Commission publishes or completes, information about the Commission's public meetings and rule-making proceedings, and other announcements related to the Commission's official activities.
The feed typically produces a few items per month, though publication frequency may vary depending on the Commission's schedule and activities. This source is valuable for readers interested in understanding how federal sentencing policy is developed and refined, what research and data inform sentencing decisions, and how the federal sentencing system evolves over time.
Model-written orientation, generated 2026-08-05 by haiku, prompt version 1. It may draw on general knowledge of public institutions and is not official-record content.
Identity and registry record
- Registry id
ussc-news- Agency / parent organization
- U.S. Sentencing Commission
- Branch
- judicial
- Type
- RSS feed
- Status
- planned
- Tier
- 2
- URL (feed)
- https://www.ussc.gov/rss_press_release.xml (opens in a new tab)
- URL (home)
- https://www.ussc.gov/topic/news (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2026-07-26
- Registry notes
- Probed 2026-07-26: HTTP 404 — page moved, not blocked. Re-probed 2026-07-28 at the documented feed (per USSC's own RSS FAQ): HTTP 200 but zero items — the press-release feed is live and currently empty (742 bytes; USSC publishes a few items/month, feed may only carry recent window). Stays planned; re-check when USSC next publishes, then activate. Email sibling registered 2026-07-29: ussc-email (GUIDE §3 email class; the web status here is unchanged).
How we ingest it
- Channel
- RSS feed
- Method
- Would poll the documented press-release RSS feed daily for new items.
- Request budget
- the agency class: at most 3,000 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)
- Politeness
- robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded
- Capture and hash
- captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)
Ingestion health
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned.
Ingestion statistics
These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned. Ingestion statistics are measured for sources the pipeline reads.
All time
No requests to www.ussc.gov are recorded in the request log.
Last 30 days, day by day
No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.