It was a beautiful Sunday morning, the sun shone from a cloudless blue sky, Wayne Pacelle recalled, as he walked into a courtyard in Northeast Kansas last weekend to meet for the first time a man whose deeds he despises like no others.The setting, despite Pacelle's depiction, was not idyllic. It was the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, an infamous 22-acre gray edifice that once held Prohibition- and Depression-era gangsters Bugs Moran and Machine Gun Kelly, and has recently held political prisoners like American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of murdering two FBI agents.
Pacelle (pictured above right) is president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States. His host late last Sunday morning at Leavenworth prison was Michael Vick, our country's most-famous animal abuser.




