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Translating Research into Action

Improving the life prospects of marginalized populations

Welcome to The Lloyd Society. We are an independent, non-profit, research center dedicated to improving the lives of people involved in justice systems, such as jails, prisons, detention centers, foster care, group homes, halfway and intermediate housing facilities, treatment facilities, and supervised placement in private homes.

Over 30 million people – adolescents and adults – enter justice systems worldwide each year. These people are disproportionately of racial and ethnic minorities, from lower socio-economic classes, and on the whole, are under-resourced, under-educated, and suffer from multiple social, physical and mental health problems.

 Our goal is to improve these lives. 

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