Pamela Colloff on America's Biggest Jailhouse Snitch, Wrongful Convictions, and Criminal Justice
Reason Magazine • 10/25/2026
Summary
Pamela Colloff, author of the best-selling book "Catch the Devil," discusses America's biggest jailhouse snitch, wrongful convictions, and the criminal justice system. She expresses her obsession with the idea that the system is built to compound its own errors in an interview with Reason's Billy Binion.
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