HAPPY RETIREMENT TO PATRICK KEOHANE
Tuesday, July 27, 1999: HON. ROY BLUNT , Missouri in the House of Representatives
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to note the passing of an era in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Mr. Patrick Keohane will retire August 31 as warden of the Federal Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri. That will mark the end a period of over 30 years in which Warden Keohane or one of his two brothers has been a warden somewhere at a federal prison in the United States. It is reportedly the longest period of similar service of any family in federal prison history.
The Keohane family association with the federal prison system goes back even further to Patrick's father Tom who retired as a senior lieutenant after 31 years of service with the Bureau of Prisons. Tom and his wife Nora raised ten children--six boys and four girls--in Springfield, Missouri. Pat and four of his five brothers served in the military.
It is only fitting that Pat is retiring while warden of the Federal Medical Center in Springfield, because it was in Springfield that he began his civilian career in criminal justice as a member of the Springfield Police Department in 1964. It was only 2 years after beginning work for the Federal Prison System in 1967 as a correctional officer that he was transferred to the Springfield facility in 1969. While there, he completed his degree in law enforcement and corrections in 1974 at Drury College.
Pat Keohane has served with distinction in federal prison facilities in Indiana, Wisconsin, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, Kansas, and Illinois. He was promoted to warden in 1985 and since then has led facilities in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and California, returning to Springfield, Missouri in 1996.
As I mentioned earlier, service for the Keohanes in the Federal Prison System is a family thing. Two of his older brothers each retired with 27 years of service. In fact, they are the only family in the Nation in which three brothers served as wardens in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the only one where two brothers, both served as wardens of the same Federal institution at different times--and they accomplished that on two separate accessions.
Besides his family distinctions, Pat Keohane, has received numerous honors and recognitions, including the 1994 Warden of the Year award from the North American Association of Wardens and Superintendents and the U.S. Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service from Attorney General Janet Reno.
He is being honored later this week at dinner in his hometown in the Seventh District of Missouri. I know that my colleagues in the House join with me in expressing their appreciation for a lifetime of outstanding service to the citizens of these great United States and best wishes for a very happy future to Warden Patrick W. Keohane of Springfield, Missouri.
Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 13
Extensions of Remarks, [Page 18135]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov
As is true for scores of others who have worked for the BOP, part of Keohane's "BOP family" involves blood ties. His father, Thomas Keohane, Sr., was a BOP lieutenant who started his career in 1938 as a USP-Lewisberg correctional officer. His brother, Thomas Keohane, Jr., was a BOP warden at FCI-Miami and USP-Terre Haute; his other brother, Timothy Keohane, was a BOP warden at eight different facilities. Within the BOP, and within USP-Lewisberg, Patrick Keohane has been known as a no-nonsense administrator, but one who has a friendly, engaging, down-to-earth style.
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Tuesday, July 27, 1999: HON. ROY BLUNT , Missouri in the House of Representatives
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to note the passing of an era in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Mr. Patrick Keohane will retire August 31 as warden of the Federal Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri. That will mark the end a period of over 30 years in which Warden Keohane or one of his two brothers has been a warden somewhere at a federal prison in the United States. It is reportedly the longest period of similar service of any family in federal prison history.
The Keohane family association with the federal prison system goes back even further to Patrick's father Tom who retired as a senior lieutenant after 31 years of service with the Bureau of Prisons. Tom and his wife Nora raised ten children--six boys and four girls--in Springfield, Missouri. Pat and four of his five brothers served in the military.
It is only fitting that Pat is retiring while warden of the Federal Medical Center in Springfield, because it was in Springfield that he began his civilian career in criminal justice as a member of the Springfield Police Department in 1964. It was only 2 years after beginning work for the Federal Prison System in 1967 as a correctional officer that he was transferred to the Springfield facility in 1969. While there, he completed his degree in law enforcement and corrections in 1974 at Drury College.
Pat Keohane has served with distinction in federal prison facilities in Indiana, Wisconsin, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, Kansas, and Illinois. He was promoted to warden in 1985 and since then has led facilities in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and California, returning to Springfield, Missouri in 1996.
As I mentioned earlier, service for the Keohanes in the Federal Prison System is a family thing. Two of his older brothers each retired with 27 years of service. In fact, they are the only family in the Nation in which three brothers served as wardens in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the only one where two brothers, both served as wardens of the same Federal institution at different times--and they accomplished that on two separate accessions.
Besides his family distinctions, Pat Keohane, has received numerous honors and recognitions, including the 1994 Warden of the Year award from the North American Association of Wardens and Superintendents and the U.S. Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service from Attorney General Janet Reno.
He is being honored later this week at dinner in his hometown in the Seventh District of Missouri. I know that my colleagues in the House join with me in expressing their appreciation for a lifetime of outstanding service to the citizens of these great United States and best wishes for a very happy future to Warden Patrick W. Keohane of Springfield, Missouri.
Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 13
Extensions of Remarks, [Page 18135]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov
As is true for scores of others who have worked for the BOP, part of Keohane's "BOP family" involves blood ties. His father, Thomas Keohane, Sr., was a BOP lieutenant who started his career in 1938 as a USP-Lewisberg correctional officer. His brother, Thomas Keohane, Jr., was a BOP warden at FCI-Miami and USP-Terre Haute; his other brother, Timothy Keohane, was a BOP warden at eight different facilities. Within the BOP, and within USP-Lewisberg, Patrick Keohane has been known as a no-nonsense administrator, but one who has a friendly, engaging, down-to-earth style.
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