You wouldn't know from the article State, Counties agree 'in principle' on jails that any representatives of the many public interests working to reform Maine corrections law were on hand January 28, 08 when the Maine Legislature's Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee held a hearing on LD 2029, "An Act To Reduce Property Taxes, Eliminate Duplication and Streamline Government by Unifying the State Prisons and County Jails" Sponsored by Committee co-chair Stanley Gerzofsky.
In fact from reading the article, it's a pretty good guess that the writer whomever he or she is didn't actually attend, and is deservedly hiding behind the Associated press cloak of anonymity.
Why some writers don't even bother to listen to the live webstream of these hearings, or record it for later listening bothers me. Instead what is submitted to the public as coverage is but coverage of a shadow of the event: an impressionistic story as seen though other lenses that his or her own.
The Brunswick Times/Record's Victoria Wallack was there and did a better job, but like the Herald, no mention in her piece of the public interest groups who spoke, warning against misuse of the new proposed system for internal exile and worse.
See a detailed article on the proposal and its background from tiny paper All American Patriots of Sweden Maine.
Bad PPH! No donut!
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