{"id":4051,"date":"2017-10-20T23:56:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T03:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sentencing.net\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2019-11-06T11:09:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:09:04","slug":"federal-halfway-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sentencing.net\/prison-conditions\/federal-halfway-house","title":{"rendered":"Federal Halfway House – Everything You Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Over the past several weeks, I have received numerous e-mails and calls from different individuals concerning federal halfway house<\/strong> placements that have been reduced significantly\u2014or denied entirely\u2014by the Federal Bureau of Prisons<\/a> (\u201cBOP\u201d).<\/p>\r\n

What is going on? A variety of things, it seems.<\/p>\r\n

I.\u00a0 Federal Halfway House \u2013 A Brief Overview<\/h2>\r\n

The BOP has long afforded inmates the opportunity to spend a portion of their final days of imprisonment in a federal halfway house<\/strong>. A few years back the BOP started calling federal halfway houses<\/strong> \u201cResidential Re-Entry Centers,\u201d or RRCs for short, but the name change did not materially affect the function of federal halfway houses<\/strong>\u2014to provide a transitional period for prisoners releasing into the community. This transitional period allows prisoners to look for work, housing, and rebuild family\/community ties\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

A.\u00a0 \u00a0BOP\u2019s Statutory Authority For Federal Halfway House Placements<\/h3>\r\n

The BOP\u2019s authority to place inmates in a federal halfway house<\/strong> derives from two federal statutes:<\/p>\r\n