Jarrod Shanahan

Jarrod Shanahan is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage (Verso, 2022); coauthor of States of Incarceration (Field Notes, 2022), City Time (NYU Press, 2025), and Skyscraper Jails (Haymarket, 2025); and editor of Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity (Verso, 2022). He works as an assistant professor of criminal justice at Governors State University.