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| Officials to review media access |
| By The Providence Journal |
| Published: 09/11/2007 |
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RHODE ISLAND - CRANSTON — The Department of Corrections is willing to back off language in a policy that critics say “reeks of censorship” and would limit the media’s access to inmates inside the Adult Correctional Institutions. Spokeswoman Tracey Poole said the department would change its proposed media-access policy in the coming weeks following an outcry from civil libertarians, journalists and even former prisoners. Among the likely changes, Poole said, was a provision that would allow corrections officials to deny interviews with an inmate if they deemed it insufficiently “sensitive to the feelings and needs of crime victims.” “That one we really need to look at,” she said last night, following a public hearing in which critics repeatedly blasted the policy. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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