The 2021 Guidelines Manual is available in PDF format for browsing, downloading, or printing. 

The 2021 manual is also available on the Guidelines App, a mobile-friendly HTML web-based app that features additional tools to assist in understanding and applying the federal sentencing guidelines. For quick future access, use the “Add to Home Screen” feature on your mobile device or save as a bookmark on your desktop or laptop computer.

This edition contains:

• a reprint of the guidelines, policy statements, and commentary contained in the 2018 Guidelines Manual;
• an updated version of Appendix B (containing the principal statutory provisions governing sentencing, the Commission, and the drafting of sentencing guidelines as of August 1, 2021); and,
• a reprint of the 2018 version of the Supplement to Appendix C.

"As many of you know, since early 2019, the United States Sentencing Commission has been operating without the quorum of four voting members required by statute to promulgate amendments to the sentencing guidelines, policy statements, and commentary...

The Commission has received feedback indicating that hard copies of the 2018 Guidelines Manual are significantly worn and that there is a limited supply of new copies available. In addition, the Commission has identified the need to update Appendix B, the accompanying volume to the Guidelines Manual that compiles the principal statutory provisions governing sentencing, the Commission, and the drafting of sentencing guidelines. Congress has amended several of the statutory provisions contained in Appendix B since the Commission released the 2018 Guidelines Manual.

As acting chair of the Commission, I am pleased to transmit this edition of the Guidelines Manual..."