Word: snitch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never have thought about it, but exams sans supervision are the way it's done at dozens of schools nation-wide. At some colleges, students are responsible for watching over themselves and each other: Princeton undergraduates, for example, are obliged to snitch on classmates they see cheating. Codes of conduct at other schools cover the range of activities beyond academic honesty, mandating penalties for everything from check-bouncing to public insobriety...
...girlfriend before he went off to school. He also dimly recalls his parents' separation, "which was, I think, about a year ago." He stays with his mother and two younger sisters; the precocious girls watch porno videocassettes in their bedroom and assure Clay that they will not snitch any more cocaine from his room because they can now buy it on their own. Before too long, Clay faces the same daily decision that afflicts all of his rich L.A. friends: whether to get drunk or stoned or both...
...home is supposed to be his castle. But his dungeon? Beginning this week, ten Albuquerque lawbreakers, instead of being sentenced to jail or to a toothless probation, are obliged to stay home every night. No police sentries are stationed outside, families are not required to snitch. Rather, confinement is enforced by remote control. Strapped to the ankle of each offender (mainly drunk drivers, all nonviolent adults on work-release) is a transmitter tuned in to a device on the home telephone. The phone in turn is connected to a computer downtown. It will monitor whether the electronically shack led prisoner...
...fiction and non-fiction that began, it seems with the first indictment Charles Colson, in his memoir, Born Again, told how Jesus--if no one else--has forgiven him for paying hush money to the Watergate burglars. In Blind Ambition, John Dean reminded us that he decided to snitch on Nixon for the good of the country--not to mention the success of his own plea-bargaining. And G. Gordon Liddy's bizarre autobiography, Will, left no doubt that all his malevolence really had but one aim all along: to protect the U.S. from Communism...
...call "the hell-house"-was the site of one of the country's worst prison riots. In February of last year convicts went berserk, killing 33 fellow prisoners, some with acetylene torches. Many of the victims were suspected of having broken the sacred code of cons everywhere: never snitch. Now trials are either over, under way, or imminent for 27 inmates charged with murder in the riot-and this, in turn, has inspired more bloodshed: Explains Joanne Brown, director of Adult Institutions and one of the state's top prison officials: "Everybody is a potential witness against everybody...