Jailhouse Journalism

Chicago Tribune reporters lend time and talent to help produce jail newspaper
By Rex W. Huppke, Jon Yates, and Angela Rozas

Last year, with support from the American Society of Newspaper Editors and a nudge from a high school English teacher, some reporters and editors at the Chicago Tribune took on an interesting project: teaching journalism to students serving time at Cook County Jail and helping them to create a school newspaper. The product was Three & Eight Voices, a publication named for the students of Consuella B. York Alternative High School, Divisions 3 and 8, who made it a reality.

The newspaper first published in February 2007.

Rex W. Huppke, Jon Yates and Angela Rozas contributed their efforts to this project. These are their stories.
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Three & Eight Voices saluted African-American heroes in the February 2007 edition (cover shown below). The newspaper is created by high school inmates of Cook County Jail outside downtown Chicago.