This study of the organized network of inmate informants in a Texas maximum security institution profiles the informants and describes the 'snitch' recruitment process, the types of intelligence gathered, the informers' payment, and how this informant …

Infoming was their actual prison work-role and the ordinary inmates lacked the influence and power to impute deviancy to the inmate-snitch role. The last section describes how the staff used inmate-snitch reports to control the inmate population.

Jul 19, 2018 · Guards had been monitoring two lovers who routinely snuck into each other’s cells. This time, the duty sergeant arrived early enough to catch them with their clothes still on. She let them off with another warning: Next time they’d go to lock-up.

PRISON GUARDS AND "SNITCHES" back-up for the B.T.s by assisting in breaking up fights and quelling minor disturbances. As a reward for their services, runners enjoyed more mobility and privileges within the block than the other inmates (but less than the B.T.s). Many runners were also friends or acquaintances of the B.T.s in the

Jan 30, 2021 · Everyone who is in the general population follow rules – I-60 [a form to make a request to a prison official], write down a note to the guards and snitch on you. The guards are all into that because they are into the safe prisons initiative.

Sep 9, 2011 · This paper investigates the role inmate informants play in detecting inappropriate prisoner–guard relationships. Data for this exploratory study were collected as part of a larger project, where the author conducted 32 face-to-face interviews with prisoners who engaged in inappropriate boundary violations with correctional officers.

Jul 20, 2018 · Guards had been monitoring two lovers who routinely snuck into each other’s cells. This time, the duty sergeant arrived early enough to catch them with their clothes still on.

Dec 27, 2018 · This ethnographic research addresses the control strategies employed by Norwegian guards in everyday interactions with inmates under institutional conditions in which the use of official negative sanctions is restricted.

Aug 6, 2018 · You don’t really have a right to remain silent, for example, if you are granted immunity by a prosecutor or judge. You could be sent to jail for contempt of court if you don’t cooperate. But can prison guards punish you for refusing to cooperate with their plans to use you as an informant?

Sep 5, 2024 · However, if a prisoner refuses to snitch once an offense has been found by a prison guard, guards can sentence the refusing inmate to a long stint in solitary confinement, or even take away his prison job, despite reforms.