Court blocks ABC’s Kevorkian interview

A state appellate court has blocked ABC’s planned prison interview with

Jack Kevorkian, the assisted-suicide advocate jailed for helping a terminally ill man take his own life in 1998…

During the last two years, the state Department of Corrections has tightened restrictions on media access to prisoners and now bars all

televised interviews with inmates. ABC, backed by various news organizations, argued the restrictions violate the First Amendment.

Department spokesman Matt Davis said ABC’s interview proposal, which called for Walters and 10 other people to be admitted to the prison for

nine hours, demonstrated the possible disruptiveness of media access to prisons.

Nando Times