A California lawmaker is proposing a bill to get TV cameras and reporters inside the state's prison system.
State Sen. Nancy Skinner on Monday introduced new legislation that would reopen access to California prisons to the news media.
Dana Simas, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, said she doesn't comment on pending legislation and she referred comments to theSpecifically, the bill would allow interviews of those behind bars during tours or in prearranged interviews — as long as the incarcerated person consents to being interviewed and unless the tour or interview would pose an immediate and direct threat to the security of the...
Until the 1990s, California allowed the news media much greater access to the conditions inside state prisons. Two years later, Skinner's office said CDCR adopted some of the strictest regulations in the country, and they remain mostly in effect today.
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