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Abt is making federal justice data more user friendly through better visualization and filtering capabilities.

There has been little research on women who are pregnant, give birth, or experience a pregnancy termination or loss while in prison or jail. Understanding the health and well-being of pregnant people who are incarcerated at the federal, state, and local…

Despite steadily increasing resources, the 260 million citizens of Indonesia continue to experience unequal access to quality government services. The causes are many: Lack of transparency and citizen engagement Inconsistent policies Limited…

People with a substance use disorder are overrepresented in the justice system, from the arrest phase to incarceration to the risk for recidivism. For example, more than 10 times as many people in prison (58 percent) and sentenced to jail (63 percent)…

The Abt Scientific Resource Center (SRC), with our partner Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, supports the USPSTF in meeting evolving standards and expectations for rigorously developed, evidence-based clinical guidelines.

Our joint challenge with domestic reform owners was to: Pivot to a response to the outbreak of war in Ukraine and support war recovery efforts Reform regulation of the business environment and economic governance to promote broad-based economic growth…

The Department of Justice's PREA standards outline requirements for preventing, detecting, and responding to sexual abuse and sexual harassment in confinement facilities. Each year, hundreds of confinement facilities must be audited for compliance with…

Roca, Inc., a non-profit organization, aims to foster behavior change and improve outcomes for high-risk young adults. Recently, Roca has expanded its program throughout Massachusetts and to Baltimore, MD, and introduced a behavior change curriculum to…

Existing and emerging drug-use problems can surprise and overwhelm community systems and resources. An accurate understanding of a community’s drug-use problem needs to include the full range of people arrested who may who use drugs, from recreational…

The goal of domestic violence high risk response teams (DVHRTs) is to reduce domestic violence homicide and severe multiple assaults. But little is known about how to measure and evaluate the performance of these programs.