Zhandarka Kurti is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

08.28.2019

• Zhandarka Kurti
• Jarrod Shanahan

Meek Mill’s Case “Is Not About One Judge, One Courtroom”

Meek Mill is finally free. But his case, depicted in a new Amazon docuseries, shows the urgent need to challenge the criminalization of poverty and the class society that jailed him in the first place.

11.16.2018

• Zhandarka Kurti
• William Martin

Cuomo’s “Carceral Humanism”

Andrew Cuomo is being touted as a 2020 presidential contender. But his juvenile justice reform law does more to shore up the carceral state than attack it.