Jessica Pishko

Jessica Pishko is a journalist and lawyer with a JD from Harvard Law School and an MFA from Columbia University. She has been reporting on the criminal legal system for a decade, with a focus on the political power of sheriffs since 2016. In addition to her newsletter Posse Comitatus , her writings have been featured in The New York Times , Politico , Rolling Stone , The Atlantic , The Appeal , Slate , and Democracy Docket . She has been awarded journalism fellowships from the Pulitzer Center...See more

Jessica Pishko is a journalist and lawyer with a JD from Harvard Law School and an MFA from Columbia University. She has been reporting on the criminal legal system for a decade, with a focus on the political power of sheriffs since 2016. In addition to her newsletter Posse Comitatus , her writings have been featured in The New York Times , Politico , Rolling Stone , The Atlantic , The Appeal , Slate , and Democracy Docket . She has been awarded journalism fellowships from the Pulitzer Center and Type Investigations and was a 2022 New America Fellow. A longtime Texas resident, she currently lives with her family in North Carolina. See less