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Test your knowledge of jailhouse snitches

May 5, 2018 by Alexandra Natapoff

The Orange County scandal has kept public attention focused on the jailhouse informant phenomenon.  This quiz published in The Marshall Project assembles some dramatic examples, and reminds us of the wide variety of benefits that informants receive, how little regulation the Supreme Court has imposed on the practice, and how easy it is for informants to collude with each other.

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