Returning Citizen Success: Austin M.

While CoreCivic celebrates every individual who has been released from our care and is now leading a successful life outside incarceration, we take time to highlight and share these special stories we hear from formerly incarcerated individuals, such as Austin M.

Austin was released in 2024 from CoreCivic's Crowley County Correctional Facility in Olney Springs, Colorado. Today, he is an undergraduate student at Colorado State University (Pueblo), where he is majoring in Business Management. Through correspondence to CoreCivic's facility leadership at Crowley, Austin attributed much of his educational success to Timothy Biggers, an instructor supervisor at Crowley, who invested in Austin's educational journey while he was incarcerated.

"I wouldn't have been able to accomplish this if it wasn't for Mr. Timothy Biggers, as he started up a college program at Crowley County Correctional Facility," said Austin. "Without this program, I wouldn't have been able to get the work I needed done, and I would be completely lost. With his help, I was able to be the first one in the United States to be nominated and inducted into a national honor society while in prison. This was the National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS). I was also able to maintain the highest-grade point average possible, a GPA of 4.0."

CoreCivic celebrates Austin's reentry success, and all other individuals who are on their journey to success following incarceration.