Douglas Evans is a faculty member at Fairleigh Dickinson University in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His research explores how criminal legal system involvement impacts access to housing, post-secondary education, and relationship formation and maintenance as well as the benefits of higher education programs in prisons and how incarceration affects public health and family stability. He has written successful federal, state, and foundation grants for which he has conducted multiple evaluation projects as a project and research director. He teaches college courses in prisons through Hudson Link (in collaboration with Mercy College), NJSTEP (in collaboration with Rutgers), and the Prison to College (through John Jay College) programs. He earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University–Bloomington.