Meanings of jailhouse informants in English

Mr MacFarlane says jailhouse informants "have all but disappeared from Canadian courtrooms".

While there are usually multiple causes for that, he says, jailhouse informants are among the main ones.

Tim McKinell says police use jailhouse informants too often and their reliability and credibility need to be carefully examined.

Fogle was tried separately and convicted of second-degree murder based on the testimony of three jailhouse informants, lawyers said.

Fifteen years ago, retired High Court judge Sir Thomas Thorpe recommended changes to the use jailhouse informants in New Zealand.

It rocked the DA's office in the early nineties and resulted in changes in the use of jailhouse informants as trial witnesses.

Under the policy, jailhouse informants are not called except in the most exceptional of circumstances, and after a rigorous credibility protocol has been met.

The lawyers presented new statements from jailhouse informants who said Sneed confessed to setting up Glossip so that he could avoid a death sentence.

Jailhouse informants, many of whom are seeking reduced time or special privileges, are notoriously unreliable.