Zora J Murff: Corrections
Related Member: Zora Murff
From 2012 to 2015, Zora J Murff worked as a Tracker for Linn County Juvenile Detention and Diversion Services in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As a Tracker, he provided services to youths who were convicted of crimes, adjudicated, and subsequently ordered to complete probation. Juveniles in his charge were asked to comply with services which included: electronic monitoring, therapies, drug screening, and community service; it was his responsibility to have continual contact with them to ensure these expectations are met.
By reconsidering the role that he played in the lives of the kids he worked with, he began to acknowledge the burden that comes with tasking young men and women with continued complicity. Zora’s stance as a consequence kept their relationships in a state of flux ranging from stable to tenuous – a constant motion mirroring the discord that develops between the system’s intentions and outcomes. Through employing ideas of anonymity, voyeurism, and introspection,Corrections is an examination of youth experience in the system, the role images play in defining someone who is deemed a criminal, and how the concepts of privacy and control may affect their future.
