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• Letter from Human Rights Watch to the deputy attorney general, Department of Justice, August 6, 2012. (p. -1-)
• Letter from Kathleen M. Kenney, Assistant Director and General Counsel, Bureau of Prisons, to Human Rights Watch (in response to Human Rights Watch’s letter to the deputy attorney general, above), October 22, 2012. (p. -4-)
• Letter from Human Rights Watch to Kathleen M. Kenney, Assistant Director and General Counsel, Bureau of Prisons, August 3, 2012. (p. -6-)
• Bureau of Prisons, Reponses to Questions Submitted by Human Rights Watch, July 27, 2012. (p. -7-)
• FMC Butner, Responses to Questions Submitted by Human Rights Watch, August 10, 2012. (p. -12-)
• Memorandum from Kathleen M. Hawk, former director, Bureau of Prisons, to executive staff (Hawk Memo), July 22, 1994. (p. -15-)
• “Conversations with Staff About Compassionate Release,” Memorandum from Victoria Blain (pseudonym) to Mary Price, Vice President and General Counsel, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, September 20, 2012 (a detailed chronology of her efforts to submit her request for compassionate release). (p. -17-)
• Bureau of Prisons, Program Statement 5050.46, “Compassionate Release; Procedures for Implementation of 18 U.S.C 3582 (c)(1)(A) & 4205(g),” May 19, 1998. (p. -23-)
• Letter from Michael J. Elston, Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, to Ricardo H. Hinojosa, Chair, US Sentencing Commission (Elston Letter), July 14, 2006. (p. -30-)
• Response to Request for Reduction in Sentence Consideration, to Philip Smith, February 9, 2012. (p. -39-)
• Memorandum from Sara M. Revell, Complex Warden, FMC Butner, to Caspar McDonald (pseudonym), “Reduction in Sentence,” and other accompanying documents. (p. -40-)