(WJAR) — For decades, on-camera interviews inside prisons and jails have exposed injustices, uncovered untold stories and, in some cases, helped overturn convictions or solve cold cases.
Now, the Rhode Island Department of Corrections is no longer allowing journalists to use recording devices during in-person inmate interviews, a policy change the I-Team discovered while requesting an interview with an inmate about rehabilitation efforts tied to proposed sentencing reform legislation at the State House.
The inmate agreed to speak on camera, but the department denied the request…