Justin McDevitt

Justin McDevitt is director of the Women’s College Partnership at the Indiana Women’s Prison that brings AA and BA degree opportunities to incarcerated women in Indiana through a cross-institutional partnership between Marian University, the University of Notre Dame, and BPI. He was formerly the Assistant Regional Director, Alumni and Reentry Services for Notre Dame Programs for Education in Prison (NDPEP), where he also teaches the Career Internship class. Justin holds a J.D. from Loyola University Chicago (‘12), an M.A. in political science from the University of Notre Dame (‘14), and is currently finishing his Ph.D. at Notre Dame, researching the political development of collateral consequences for felony convictions. As part of NDPEP, Justin and his colleagues are working to build a statewide consortium in Indiana, and a larger umbrella organization at Notre Dame.

He is also currently co-editing an upcoming volume for Brandeis University Press (Jan. ’24) on education in prison globally.