Word: wtic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prisoner has no right of privacy. Without his knowledge, convicted Robber Harold Travers' parole hearing at Connecticut's Somers State Prison was secretly filmed and recorded by Hartford's WTIC-TV for a documentary on prison life. Though his face and name were not revealed, Travers sought $50,000 damages from the station and state officials for invasion of privacy. The facts might indeed have entitled a "full-fledged citizen" to sue, ruled U.S. District Judge M. Joseph Blumenfeld. But "no actionable invasion occurs if the subject of such publicity is a prisoner. A prisoner becomes...
...lecture originally delivered at the Yale Divinity School and broadcast last week over Hartford's WTIC...