Lorie Smith Goshin, RN, PhD, FAAN, is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Hunter College in the City University of New York. She received a Masters in Parent-Child Nursing from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD and postdoctoral research scientist training at Columbia University. One of her first nursing jobs was taking care of children detained in a county jail. She now researches criminal-legal involvement as a social determinant of health, with a particular focus on women and minor children. She has studied the long-term mother and child effects of a prison nursery, nursing care of incarcerated pregnant people, parenting stress in women on probation and parole, and community alternatives to incarceration for women. She has received awards for this work from the American Public Health Association, Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses, the National March of Dimes, and the Foundation for New York State Nurses.