There are secrets that are kept from the public and then there are ‘public secrets' - secrets that the public chooses to keep safe from itself, like ‘don’task, don'ttelT. Thepublic secret is an aporia - an irresolvable internal contradiction between inside and outside, power and knowledge. 'Public Secrets’ is an interactive testimonial in which women incarcerated in the California State Prison System reveal the secrets of the ‘war on drugs', the criminal justice system, and the prison industrial complex.