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  • Six halfway-house residents who were scheduled to be sent back to prison escaped because they weren't kept in a secure area, as required by the state contract.

    Halfway House Oversight Lax Lisa Fleisher 2011

  • Six halfway-house residents who were scheduled to be sent back to prison escaped because they weren't kept in a secure area, as required by the state contract.

    Halfway House Oversight Lax Lisa Fleisher 2011

  • Instead, Pakistani politics lives in a kind of halfway-house neatly captured by Mr. Haqqani's halfway-house status as both guest and prisoner—a guest of the country's democratically elected leadership, a prisoner of the military and associated antidemocratic forces that want to make an example of the urbane diplomat.

    A Hostage in Pakistan Mira Sethi 2012

  • A University of Utah study that found that "convicted sexual offenders who are in their 40s, are either married or divorced, and who earn at least $11 an hour" are the most likely to make it through halfway-house programs is a good start.

    Throwing Away the Key 2010

  • That Paul Young's one devious guy: His halfway-house revenge plot might just turn Wisteria Lane into a civil-war zone with as many fronts as there are residents, and it could end very badly for one particularly desperate housewife Susan tonight, before the three-week holiday hiatus begins.

    Tonight's TV Hot List: Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010 2010

  • Who are all these surly suburban Jets from Hydrangea Circle waging battle against the halfway-house Sharks?

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2010

  • Jack Abramoff is out of federal custody -- and also, now, done with his halfway-house job of working in a kosher pizzeria in a Baltimore suburb.

    Read this: Jack Abramoff, Michael Jackson, Drew Storen The Reliable Source 2010

  • We Brits definitely don't do halfway-house hugs or casual greetings.

    Jo Bryant: One Kiss or Two? The Etiquette of Social Kissing 2009

  • You're lost already-and we haven't even mentioned the other main character, Don Gately, recovering drug addict and AA halfway-house staffer, whose brontosaurian placidity it's best not to roil.

    Levity's Rainbow 2008

  • This controversy, like the debate over slavery, like the debate over abortion, and like all other controversies over simple moral issues, is and should be a debate between extremists, not a case for middle-of-the-roader rhetoric or halfway-house solutions.

    Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2007 – November – 12 2007

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