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• Alison Colby, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology. Her research interests include prison visitation, the impact of incarceration on families, critical criminology (e.g., convict, feminist, queer, and rural), social justice, prison abolition, gender and crime, victimization, and qualitative methods. She is also a trained Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program Instructor. Her scholarship has been published in Criminal Justice Studies, Critical Criminology, and a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prison, celebrating 25 years of convict criminology. She is also a contributing author to Convict Criminology for the Future, edited by Dr. Jeffrey Ian Ross (University of Baltimore) and Dr. Francesca Vianello (University of Padua).