Ill Informed

“We have a Bill of Rights that constrains what the state can do … We have statutory codes that constrain what people can be convicted and punished for, and codes that say how much punishment is appropriate. And then we suspend nearly all those rules when it comes to informants.” The New Yorker’s Charles Bethea: What Do We Owe a Prison Informant? “A man in Georgia says he risked his life for years and was abandoned. But there are very few rules protecting those who provide law enforcement with information.”