She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from North Dakota State University and doctorate in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University. Her current work examines the areas of corrections, subcultures, reentry, communities and crime, and inequalities. She has published in the Journal of Criminal Justice, Deviant Behavior, Trends in Organized Crime, and the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice. Her dissertation research on the convict code was supported by a BJS-Graduate Research Fellowship and the Charles Koch Foundation, and Meghan was the project manager for the LoneStar Project — a study funded by the National Institute of Justice examining gangs and reentry experiences.