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Jailhouse Informants Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones "the "wickedest man in theOffers a new understanding of jailhouse informants and the role they play in wrongful convictions Jailhouse informants witnesses who testify in a criminal trial, often in exchange for some incentive are particularly persuasive to jurors. A jailhouse informant usually claims to have heard the defendant confess to a crime while they were incarcerated together. Research shows that such testimony increases the likelihood of a guilty verdict. But it is