Stories by Jessica Pupovac
Jessica Pupovac is an adult educator and independent journalist living in Chicago.
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
The Pentagon fails to protect U.S. troops from sexual abuse -- sometimes with deadly results.
Posted on Mar 3, 2008
As an anti-terror task force targets three young Puerto Ricans in New York, people take to the streets.
Posted on Jan 31, 2008
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
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
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
Rather than accept cheap diesel from Venezuela, the city chose to raise commuting costs for low-income residents.
Posted on Jan 3, 2006
