Jessica Pishko

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.

Articles

Getting Out: The Paradox of Parole
Jessica Pishko on Frederic G. Reamer's "On the Parole Board."...
Jessica PishkoJan 17, 2017
- Law
Inside and Outside: When Tourists Visit Prison
"Incarceration Nations" is a book that doesn’t entirely make up its mind...
Jessica PishkoMay 14, 2016
- Law
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....
Jessica PishkoNov 16, 2015
- Law
The Illusion of Choice: How the Government Makes the Public Think Spying Is Good for Us
Jessica Pishko reviews They Know Everything About You....
Jessica PishkoJun 5, 2015
- Nonfiction
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 York University Law School. He has won relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, argued five times before the Supreme Court, ...
Jessica PishkoNov 25, 2014
- Nonfiction
Toyed with and Discarded: The Inmate as Human in an Age of Mass Incarceration
The United States currently faces an unprecedented prison crisis....
Jessica PishkoOct 5, 2014
- Law
Culture Shock: The Problem of Juvenile Justice
The prison system as a whole isn’t working, particularly so for juvenile detention centers....
Jessica PishkoJun 2, 2014
- Cultural Studies
- Law
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....
Jessica PishkoFeb 11, 2014
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. It’s all the more disturbing when these events seem unprovoked. Adam Lanza had no criminal record and no known ...
Jessica PishkoJul 7, 2013