California Prison Secrecy Shroud Finally to Be Lifted?
By any sane measure, California’s correctional system is in deep trouble. The Modesto Bee reminds us that it’s also shrouded in secrecy---and has been ever since 1995 when then-Governor Pete Wilson got tired of critical stories about prison abuse and solved that vexing little problem by all but locking out the press. Now with the system in ever greater chaos, even CA legislators are made nervous by the lack of light, and are mulling over a bill to lift the ban.