Thesaurus results for HALFWAY HOUSE

halfway house

noun

as in home

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Recent Examples of halfway house Considering the rapper previously spent seven months in custody on the Louisiana charge several years ago, he could be released much sooner than his sentence suggests, possibly even to a halfway house next year. —

Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024 Advertisement The consent decree requires close monitoring of staff abuse and retaliation, medical care, the application of early release credits and the timely release of inmates to halfway houses. —

Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024 Many of those who are eligible for First Step Act are minimum security prisoners but a lack of halfway house capacity has led to many prisoners staying in institutions longer than necessary. —

Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024 His July 2014 sentence also included five years’ probation on each count to run concurrently, but Flack had terminal cancer and died at age 78, not long after serving time in a halfway house. —

Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for halfway house

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Noun

But the return home will likely be marked by more heartbreak.

— Abeer Salman, CNN, 27 Jan. 2025
The new potential hazard puts the very homes that survived the fires at risk again.

— Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025