Volume 15, Number 8 · November 5, 1970
Senator Goodell & Philip Berrigan: An Untold Story
By Philip Nobile
Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary is a 'maximum security' institution located in eastern Pennsylvania. Although Lewisburg is for prisoners considered to be dangerous criminal types—the reason for its high walls, gun turrets, sliding steel doors, triple locks, and guarded cell blocks—it also serves as a processing point for political prisoners and other 'low-risk' convicts who pass through on their way to Lewisburg Farm or the nearby Allenwood Camp. The latter are 'minimum security' arrangements, that is, prisons without walls.
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