Wednesday, March 26, 2008

New Jersey: Activist fights for jail term closer to home

Human rights activist Edwin Lewinson demanded to be sent to prison following his arrest last year during a protest against a controversial school that trains Latin American troops at Fort Benning, Ga.

But the blind 78-year-old retired professor is not happy to serve his three-month sentence at the Elkton Federal Correctional Institution, which is 413 miles from his home in Newark.

"It's going to make it difficult for my friends to come visit me," Lewinson said Wednesday during a small rally in his honor in front of the Peter Rodino Federal Building in Newark.

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