Franciscan priest and Pace e Bene staff member Friar Louis Vitale, 77, began serving a six-month prison sentence on Monday, January 25 for nonviolent, prayerful protest calling for closure of the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia. On February 25 he was transferred from Crisp County Jail in Cordele, Georgia (where he spent his first month after being processed briefly at Muscogee County Jail), to the US Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. You can write to at the following address:
Louis Vitale #25803-048
USP Atlanta
U.S. Penitentiary
P.O. Box 150160
Atlanta, GA 30315
Click here to read series of letters Louie has written.
| Update Title | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Pace e Bene New England Helps Organize Nonviolence Conference and March | Mar 20, 2010 | |
| Friar Louie Vitale Transferred to Federal Prison in Atlanta | Jan 25, 2010 | |
| Pace e Bene Joins in Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade | Jan 19, 2010 | |
| Gaza Freedom March Concludes; Fr. Louie Returns Home | Dec 31, 2009 | |
| Many Gaza Freedom Marchers Reject Symbolic Crossing; Fr. Louie and Others Freed | Dec 29, 2009 |
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