Jessica Pishko graduated with a JD from Harvard Law School and received an MFA from Columbia University. She writes frequently on incarceration and the justice system.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Getting Out: The Paradox of Parole
Jessica Pishko on Frederic G. Reamer's "On the Parole Board."...
Inside and Outside: When Tourists Visit Prison
"Incarceration Nations" is a book that doesn’t entirely make up its mind...
Especially Heinous: Guilt and the Prosecution of Sex Crimes
Vanessa Place argues that to pretend sex criminals are inhuman is to excuse ourselves from showing calculated mercy to the hated and reviled....
The Illusion of Choice: How the Government Makes the Public Think Spying Is Good for Us
Jessica Pishko reviews They Know Everything About You....
Five Minutes with Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, and a professor of law at New ...
Toyed with and Discarded: The Inmate as Human in an Age of Mass Incarceration
The United States currently faces an unprecedented prison crisis....
Culture Shock: The Problem of Juvenile Justice
The prison system as a whole isn’t working, particularly so for juvenile detention centers....
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Civil Disobedience and the Rule of Law
Lewis Perry, civil disobedience, and a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between lawlessness and citizenship....
Here Be Monsters: Adrian Raine’s “The Anatomy of Violence”
MASS KILLINGS are now frighteningly commonplace and on the increase, currently averaging over one mass shooting in the US every month. ...
