Dr. Saleh-Hanna is an activist scholar and an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, in Dartmouth. Prior to moving to the United States, she lived in Nigeria and worked with prisoners along the West African coastline. Her book, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria (2008) is the first to include first-hand accounts by prisoners in West Africa and the first to provide an in-depth analysis of life inside West African prisons. Dr. Saleh-Hanna serves on the board of editors for the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons and the African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies.