By Erin Sullivan
Today, according to the News Service of Florida, the state Department of Corrections issued an objection to an attempt by the Florida Press Association, the First Amendment Foundation, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the press, the Society for Professional Journalists and the American Society of News Editors to file “friend of the court” briefs on behalf of a publication that, for the past 25 years, has given inmates prison-centric news and views on everything from prison food-service contractors that serve maggoty meat to sexual assaults in prisons to excessive telephone rates charged for prisoner calls.
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