Eleven human rights activists have been sentenced to federal prison for protesting at Fort Benning in Georgia, the site of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly the School of the Americas. The eleven activists were convicted of trespassing during a protest last November, when 25,000 protesters called for the training center to be shut down. The US military uses the school to train Latin American soldiers in combat, counterinsurgency and counter-narcotics. Frequently dubbed the “School of the Assassins,” critics say the school’s graduates are responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America. The activists were given sentences ranging from thirty to ninety days in federal prison.