Megan Comfort
Biography
Megan Comfort is a Senior Research Sociologist with the Applied Justice Research Division at RTI International and affiliated faculty in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Her work focuses on the intersection of criminal legal system involvement, family relationships, public health, and community justice. As one of the early researchers studying the repercussive effects of mass incarceration, she has published extensively on how people are affected by the imprisonment of a family member or loved one. She is the author of Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and a co-author with Tasseli McKay, Christine Lindquist, and Anupa Bir of Holding On: Family and Fatherhood During Incarceration and Reentry (University of California Press, 2019).