Church worker going to prison for protest says Gospel her motivation

Published: 2004-04-22

COLUMBIA, Md. (CNS) -- Betsy Lamb, Baltimore archdiocesan coordinator of formation programs, went to prison in April, convicted for her convictions. "I would do it again, if that seems like the thing to do," she said shortly before traveling to Danbury Federal Correctional Institution in Connecticut to begin her six-month sentence for trespassing in a protest last year at Fort Benning, Ga. Interviewed at her home in suburban Columbia, Lamb told The Catholic Review, Baltimore archdiocesan newspaper, that she was "a little apprehensive" about going to prison but does not regret what she did. Lamb put the best possible face on the prospect of spending 180 days and nights in a low-security, concrete prison where most of the inmates are doing time for drug crimes. What landed her in prison was her civil disobedience during last November's annual protest aimed at closing an Army training school for Central and South American military personnel at Fort Benning.

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