Stories by Jessica Pupovac
Jessica Pupovac is an independent journalist living in Chicago.
While other states release low-risk, high-cost prisoners, CA officials want to jail another terminal prisoner, on taxpayers' dime.
Posted on Sep 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A national march this week is just one example of the ongoing resistance by Hondurans against the coup.
Posted on Aug 7, 2009, Source: AlterNet
With former prisoners and their families at the helm, the movement to abolish supermax prisons and end solitary confinement is gaining ground.
Posted on Aug 11, 2008, Source: AlterNet
More than 20 years after being tortured into giving confessions by Chicago police officers, dozens of black men remain behind bars.
Posted on Jul 23, 2008, Source: AlterNet
As Canadian immigration officials stand poised to deport U.S. war resisters, activists and Parliament work to provide a safe haven.
Posted on Jul 14, 2008, Source: AlterNet
In supermax prisons, 23 hours a day of solitary confinement is the norm. How did our prison system become so cruel?
Posted on Mar 24, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The Pentagon fails to protect U.S. troops from sexual abuse -- sometimes with deadly results.
Posted on Mar 3, 2008, Source: In These Times
As an anti-terror task force targets three young Puerto Ricans in New York, people take to the streets.
Posted on Jan 31, 2008, Source: AlterNet
When crack cocaine possession means 24 years in prison and manslaughter means only 3, you know something is seriously wrong with the U.S. criminal justice system.
Posted on Oct 17, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Motivated by a nationwide decline in hunters, industry-sponsored hunter's education classes are enticing record numbers of kids to take up the sport.
Posted on Feb 28, 2007, Source: AlterNet
About 8,000 soldiers have gone AWOL since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and many of them are looking to their predecessors for support.
Posted on Dec 7, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Rather than accept cheap diesel from Venezuela, the city chose to raise commuting costs for low-income residents.
Posted on Jan 3, 2006, Source: The NewStandard
