A Sussex County woman recognized as a leader in the anti-abortion movement was sentenced to 27 months in prison for blocking access to a Washington, D.C. reproductive healthcare clinic in 2020. Joan Bell, 76, of Montague, was convicted at trial in September 2023 along with two other defendants of felony conspiracy against civil rights, and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday also sentenced her to three years of supervised release when her term ends. The judge credited Bell with the eight months she’d been behind bars since h…