Unpleasant "Secret Sites" and Misidentification of Criminals

This video podcast is both interesting and painful to watch but I feel like it is something people need to watch, especially conservative "law and order" types like myself.

The first half of the video will also open your eyes.  Taryn Simon provides glimpses behind the scenes at various unpleasant "secret sites" you've probably never heard of where nuclear waste is stored, where human bodies are allowed to decay to improve crime scene investigation techniques, and where the Federal Government grows marijuana for research purposes.  Also, did you know the Library of Congress puts out a braille edition of Playboy magazine?

In the second half of this video, Taryn provides a stark reminder that eyewitnesses have been wrong and victims can be wrong.  Sometimes the wrong person was sent to prison for years and exonerated later when improved DNA analysis technology became available.  Decades of lives were lost.  In one story, 13 different people identified the wrong man as being at the scene of the crime.

Check out "Taryn Simon photographs secret sites" from Ted.com.  It is also available on iTunes.