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The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) is apparently planning to sometime this week transfer convicted serial killer Allan Legere from the super-maximum security in Ste-Anne-des-Plaines in Quebec to a regular maximum security prison despite the fact he has escaped from maximum security custody before. Legere has perpetrated what are among the most grisly and ghastly murders ever seen in Canada, but CSC won't even admit such a decision has been made, citing its governing acts and federal privacy legislation. It is a cloak to evade responsibility and accountability to the public and this is bureaucracy acting as a law unto itself.

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Few would deny prisoners, even those as depraved as Allan Legere, some reasonable rights. Yet to say that revealing which prison he is being held in, or will soon be in, violates such rights is pure nonsense. It's a prison address, nothing more. Nobody is demanding to know Allan Legere's medical history, his Social Insurance Number, to see every letter he's ever written or any other such personal information.

But the public does want to know -- and has a reasonable expectation to know -- in what prison he is being held and under what security arrangements. He is, after all, one of the most dangerous persons in the entire nation and is a security risk, as his 1989 escape dramatically proved.

The Canadian public has every right to know how the CSC is handling this prisoner. Allan Legere is far too dangerous and far too good at conning people -- including the CSC -- for the public to be deliberately kept in the dark and to be given no input