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California Bans Media Interviews with Prisoners

Loaded on March 15, 1997 by Willie Wisely published in Prison Legal News March, 1997, page 16
Filed under: Media, Access to Media, Censorship. Location: California.
California Governor Pete Wilson issued an executive order banning face to face media interviews with prisoners. The ban comes at a time when most civil rights for the state's 142,000 prisoners have been taken and violence is on the rise in the world's largest prison system. At the obligatory public ...

 

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