Appeals Court Turns Down ACLU’s Request To Interview SC Inmates CLICK LINK FOR STORY - https://scdailygazette.com/2024/12/16/appeals-court-turns-down-aclus-request-to-interview-sc-inmates/ COLUMBIA — The state’s prison system does not have to allow interviews with inmates, a federal appeals court decided, echoing a decision from a lower court. Three federal judges dismissed a lawsuit by the state’s American Civil Liberties Union, upholding a Department of Corrections policy prohibiting in-person and phone interviews with inmates. The ACLU wants to publish interviews with two prisoners: Death row inmate Marion Bowman, whose execution warrant is expected in January and Sofia Cano, a transgender "woman", who the ACLU represents in a separate lawsuit, claiming the corrections department illegally declined to give her hormone treatments.