Morgan Griffin earned her master in Psychological Science from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She has worked as a criminal justice researcher for the past 6 years in corrections. This experience led to various research endeavors into aging offenders, residential treatment programs for mentally ill offenders, state and private prison comparisons, predictors of homelessness, prison softening and normalization, institutional misconduct, correctional industries programs, racial difference in early discharge, alcohol and drug investigations, and parole complaints.