On Sunday, Bill Crain will celebrate his 75th birthday. Ten days later – at 9 a.m. on Jan. 2 – he plans to show up at the Sussex County jail in Newton to begin serving a 20-day sentence. His crime? Crain walked across a road. As Congress and the White House hash out details of legislation to dramatically reform the federal system of sentencing criminals to prison, it’s worth considering the question of why New Jersey is sending a 75-year-old man to jail for such a silly reason. Crain teaches psychology at City College in Manhattan. He also writes books, mostly on child behavior. He lived nearly two decades in Teaneck, where he served on the township school board in the 1990s and was known as a man with a conscience and as an activist who was unafraid to speak up on controversial issues. He has since moved to a farm in Poughquag, New York, where he and his wife, Ellen, a physician, run a sanctuary for elderly and unwanted farm animals that would otherwise be slaughtered. KELLY: Shooting in Teaneck sparked his activism, and the NJ bear hunt fueled it What got Crain in trouble in Sussex County is… Read full this story
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