Recordings of conversations between a freelance reporter and a prison inmate are not shielded from discovery in a civil suit, a federal judge ruled.In a written opinion Friday, U.S. Magistrate Judge M. David Weisman denied Martin Preib’s motion to quash a subpoena for recordings of more than 100 telephone calls he made to Alstory Simon, who was convicted in the shooting deaths of two people.Prieb, an author and Chicago police officer who was elected last month as second vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police …