Subject: RE: Federal Criminal Practice Committee: Testimony of David Patton

From: To: Cc: Subject: RE: Federal Criminal Practice Committee: Testimony of David Patton Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:37:14 +0000 Thanks, This is actually really interesting. From: Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 12:16 PM To: Cc: Subject: Federal Criminal Practice Committee: Testimony of David Patton Attached from yesterday's Federal Bar Council committee meeting is Congressional testimony that will be released tomorrow by David Patton before the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, which is conducting an oversight hearing on the BOP and on the implementation of the First Step Act. Patton's testimony, which runs twelve pages, discusses among other things conditions at the MCC and MDC, particularly this winter's power outage at the MDC, and, briefly, suicide at the MCC, with mention of Jeffrey Epstein. At one point, Patton's testimony is somewhat critical of the Office, contrasting out case against Rikers Island to his allegation