{"id":1139,"date":"2026-07-29T16:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pioneerrelocationnews.com\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:11:53","slug":"how-jailhouse-snitches-send-innocent-people-to-death-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pioneerrelocationnews.com\/?p=1139","title":{"rendered":"How Jailhouse Snitches Send Innocent People to Death Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio>https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/d2h6a3ly6ooodw.cloudfront.net\/reaontv_audio_8393919.mp3<\/audio><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<select><option>1x<\/option><option>1.1x<\/option><option>1.25x<\/option><option>1.5x<\/option><option>2x<\/option><option>3x<\/option><\/select>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>:15 <\/span><br \/>\n<span> :15<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Download  <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>How Jailhouse Snitches Send Innocent People to Death Row<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-yt-id=\"9WOeC-H5WTk\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" id=\"yt-player-9WOeC-H5WTk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9WOeC-H5WTk?enablejsapi=1\" title=\"Featured YouTube video\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This week, guest host Billy Binion is joined by Pamela Colloff, a reporter at ProPublica and a staff writer at <em>The New York Times Magazine<\/em>, as well as the author of the new book <em>Catch the Devil<\/em>. The book tells the story of Paul Skalnik, a prolific jailhouse informant whose testimony helped send dozens of men to prison, including one man who remains on death row despite serious questions about his conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/pioneerrelocationnews.com\/?p=1135\">Does Trump Need a Win?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colloff explains how Skalnik repeatedly traded supposed jailhouse confessions for leniency, why police and prosecutors continued to rely on him despite his long history of deception, and how the incentives built into the criminal justice system can reward unreliable testimony. She and Binion also discuss why wrongful convictions are so difficult to overturn, how courts can compound errors long after new evidence emerges, and what Skalnik&#8217;s extraordinary story reveals about the dangers of trusting the state to correct its own mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/pioneerrelocationnews.com\/?p=1133\">Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform U.K. Party Reports Green Party Leader\u2019s Guillotine Instagram Post to Police<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0:00\u2014How a con artist became a star witness<\/p>\n<p>10:56\u2014A 1985 Florida murder case<\/p>\n<p>20:29\u2014Procedural hurdles to overturning convictions<\/p>\n<p>27:21\u2014Colloff&#8217;s meetings with Skalnik<\/p>\n<p>32:21\u2014Colloff&#8217;s experience with Skalnik&#8217;s victims<\/p>\n<p>37:51\u2014Why did law enforcement trust Skalnik?<\/p>\n<p>43:05\u2014Media coverage<\/p>\n<p>46:18\u2014Research for <em>Catch the Devil<\/em><\/p>\n<p>50:21\u2014How did Colloff start her career?<\/p>\n<p>53:45\u2014The evolution of magazine journalism<\/p>\n<p>1:00:25\u2014The true crime genre<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pamela Colloff discusses the dangers of incentivized testimony, as well as the difficulty of overturning wrongful convictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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