Jamal Lewis will stay in at halfway house in Atlanta

ATLANTA (AP) – Baltimore Ravens running back Jamal Lewis will not be allowed to participate in a team mini-camp next week and will miss the beginning of training camp as well, his attorney said Monday. The Federal Bureau of Prisons rejected a request by Lewis to be transferred from a halfway house in Atlanta to one in Maryland in order to take part in team activities, WBAL-Radio reported. Lewis is scheduled to remain at the halfway house until the first week of August and also will miss the beginning of the summer training camp. Lewis has been at the halfway house since his release last week from the federal prison, where he served four months for using a cell phone to try to set up a cocaine deal. Lewis’s attorney, Jerry Frohleich, said he has given the news to his client. “Jamal understands, he’s like anybody else,” Frohleich told WBAL. “He understands he would have loved to go to mini-camp, but he’s going to play by the rules.” Frohleich said Lewis, who entered the halfway house last Friday, will remain there until Aug. 1, the day the Ravens training camp begins in Westminster. Lewis was released from a federal prison in Florida on Thursday, after serving four months. He had pleaded guilty to charges he used a cell phone to arrange a drug deal for a friend, in 2000.