Halfway House Research Articles

Canada's ‘Open Prisons’: Hybridisation and the Role of Halfway Houses in Penal Scholarship and Practice

AbstractThis article analyses the role, form, and function of halfway houses (often referred to as re‐entry centres) in contemporary Canadian punishment. Building on studies of Nordic ‘penal exceptionalism’ and open prisons, I argue that criminologists can usefully study and conceive of halfway houses as a form of open prison. Thinking of halfway houses as open prisons (rather than re‐entry centres or post‐prison institutions), I suggest, is not only more reflective of these houses’ workings and dynamics but is also more productive. Conceptually, it positions halfway houses in opposition to walled prisons, thereby redirecting attention from the post‐prison stage to how halfway houses could present a real existing alternative to closed or walled prisons.

Learning experience from learning sources: exploiting geographic and historical potential of guerrilla sites in Wonokarto Pacitan as a source of historical learning

Pacitan is an administrative area in East Java. in this Regency there is a historical site of the struggle of General Soedirman. Guerrilla struggle during the physical revolution in Indonesia, in the period 1945-1949. These historical sites are in the form of open houses and monuments. one of the guerrilla sites used as a scheme in this study is a halfway house in Wonokarto. Its location in the hills is one of the geographical potentials that support it as a source of historical learning. The method in this research is collaboration, namely history and qualitative. The results of this study are historical learning model schemes with the use of Guerilla historical sites in Wonokarto.

MANAJEMEN PEMBERDAYAAN ANAK JALANAN (Studi pada Yayasan Rumah Singgah Anak Mandiri Lappan di Ambon)

This study aims to determine how the management of street children's empowerment at the Ambon Lappan Children's Independent Shelter.This is a qualitative descriptive study which provides an in-depth overview of certain social symptoms found at the Ambon Lappan Children's Independent Shelter.The data source in this study is the manager of a halfway house, street children at a halfway house and an official from the Ambon City Social Welfare Office. Analysis of the data used is descriptive qualitative by quoting information then presented narratively and then interpreted and made general conclusions. The results showed that the Ambon Lappan Street Street Children 's Shelter Home in Ambon had carried out management factors including planning, implementation and evaluation. In addition, the management is flexible and is run in the coordination pa

There John Bull might be seen in all his glory: cross-Channel tourism and the British Army of Occupation in France, 1815–1818

ABSTRACT Between 1815 and 1818, large portions of north-eastern France were occupied by a coalition of European allies. This Army of Occupation, arguably the first of its kind, was created to strengthen Louis XVIII’s rule and prevent another uprising like Napoleon’s 100 Days. This article argues that, in addition to preserving peace and reincorporating France in the European Congress System, the Army of Occupation was crucial to the reestablishment of cross-Channel tourism between Britain and France and the thawing of relations between those two nations on an individual, as well as governmental, level. Employing a variety of primary sources from both sides of the Channel, it explores military events such as Grand Reviews and race days as well as a variety of civil entertainments, demonstrating that those areas occupied by the British Army served as a physical halfway house and the very idea of the occupation served as a mental halfway house for British civilians, allowing them to feel safe in what had, for the past quarter-century, been enemy territory. This safety then directly translated to economic and cultural exchange, guaranteeing that the peace that the Army of Occupation was designed to create lasted much longer than the occupation itself.

Transitioning house: a “safe umbrella” from criminal stigmatization?

Building on prior work on criminal stigma, this article presents empirical findings on how criminal stigma operates within a confined environment: a transitioning house in Chicago. The study adopts an ethnographic case study approach. Empirical data consist of 116 hours of participant-observation, eight interviews and eighteen self-administered surveys. The study investigates whether or not a halfway house provides a metaphorical “safe umbrella” from criminal stigmatization for previously incarcerated individuals. This research includes attempts for and threats to the formation of this “safe umbrella”. Staff members and guest speakers provided structured opportunities (e.g. cognitive behavioral therapy, employment and self-concept coaching) for residents to discuss emotion, weakness and self- reliance as a response to actual or expected stigma from the outside world. However, threats to this “safe umbrella” occurred infrequently. This included the feeling of being labeled by speakers, staff or fellow residents, as well as reluctance in receiving assistance on stigma management. While occasional stigmatization operated within this confined and unique setting, this paper concludes that available services created a safe, welcoming and supportive “umbrella” for previously incarcerated clients.

The Evolution and Devolution of Hospital Care

The Evolution and Devolution of Hospital Care

Local Health Department Partnerships to Address Opioid Use and Overdose Prevention.

Local Health Department Partnerships to Address Opioid Use and Overdose Prevention.

Volunteerism in Sub-District Social Welfare Worker in Dosaraso Halfway House

Volunteerism in Sub-District Social Welfare Worker in Dosaraso Halfway House

Treatment Trajectories During and After a Medication Trial for Opioid Use Disorder: Moving from Research as Usual to Treatment as Usual.

The effectiveness of treatment incorporating relapse prevention medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) is typically examined in research using rigidly predefined endpoints of success versus failure, usually over a single episode of care. But this perspective may not adequately portray the nonlinear trajectories typical of real-world treatment courses in this chronic, remitting, and relapsing disorder. This descriptive study examined 12-month treatment trajectories of n = 60 patients enrolled at a single site of a larger multisite randomized controlled trial examining the comparative effectiveness of buprenorphine versus extended-release naltrexone. While the parent study provided medication treatment through the research protocol for 6 months, this study documents treatment up to 12 months, including medications, provided through standard community resources (treatment as usual) outside of the protocol. Some patients continued medications past the end of the study intervention, whereas others did not. Some patients initiated medications other than the one assigned by the study. Some patients switched from 1 medication to the other. Many patients returned to treatment after 1 or more periods of dropout and/or relapse. Patients utilized multiple episodes of bed-based care, including short-term acute residential and long-term residential treatment, and also recovery housing supports. Described trajectories are also depicted graphically. At 12 months, while rates of continuous treatment retention were low (8%), rates of cross-sectional treatment engagement including return to treatment after drop out were higher (35%). This description of nonlinear treatment trajectories highlights the potential benefits of flexibility and optimism in the promotion of re-engagement, despite interim outcomes that might traditionally be considered "failure" endpoints.

‘Mobilizing’ prisoner reentry research: Halfway houses and the spatial-temporal dynamics of prison release

To date, prisoner reentry has been treated as a generic process—that is, people ‘reenter,’ without much specification regarding when and/or where this ‘reentry’ occurs. Drawing on in-depth interviews with halfway house residents in a north-western Canadian city, this article seeks to unpack the concept of prisoner reentry by exploring its spatial-temporal dimensions. I conceptualize prisoner reentry as a temporally fragmented sometimes piecemeal process that occurs across time as well as different locales, including neighbourhoods, cities, and sometimes even provinces. I do this by analyzing reentry through the lens of mobilities. Specifically, I argue that reentry via halfway houses produces mobilities that are experienced by former prisoners as simultaneously disciplining and productive of their future. In this context, I highlight the importance of paying attention to ex-prisoners’ conceptions of their future, including when and where they imagine that they will enact different aspects of their reintegration.

Connecticut city reaches $625K settlement in halfway house lawsuit

A federal prison halfway house will not be built in Connecticut after a Pennsylvania‐based nonprofit reached a $625,000 settlement in an ongoing lawsuit with the city of Norwalk, The News & Observer reported Dec. 24, 2019. The city will pay $275,000 of the settlement, while the city's insurance company will pay the rest. Firetree, the nonprofit, will not be able to build a halfway house as part of the settlement, The Hour reports. In 2017, the nonprofit sued the city because it denied them permits to operate the 2,700‐square‐foot halfway house. In the lawsuit, the company claimed the city discriminated against the intended residents, many of whom were recovering from addiction and had physical and mental health disabilities. Firetree was denied a certificate of occupancy because city officials said it went against approved use. The nonprofit appealed the decision to the Zoning Board of Appeals but was also denied in 2017, eventually leading to the lawsuit. The building was previously operated as a sober house. Firetree bought it in 2015 and invested nearly $630,000 worth of improvements. Josh Morgan, a city spokesman, said the money the city paid out would be significantly less than what it would cost if it went to trial. Firetree's attorney could not be reached.

A “halfway house” for improving captive welfare

A “halfway house” for improving captive welfare

Using the Science of Positive Psychology in the Formative Evaluation of Social Justice Interventions: A Case Example

The pursuit of culturally responsive approaches for designing and evaluating programs to promote social justice has become of the utmost importance to the evaluation community in the past decade. A strengths-focused evaluation approach has great promise for empowering individuals, groups, communities, and organizations, and identifying program strengths to build upon in addition to illuminating program deficits. However, there is a dearth of literature on using a strengths approach to evaluate interventions and programs to promote social justice. Drawing from the two disciplines of positive psychology and evaluation, this article illustrates a strengths-focused approach to formative evaluation using a case example of a halfway house for previously incarcerated women. The findings exemplify the positive psychological phenomena that emerge as a result of focusing the evaluation on program strengths. The case demonstrates that the application of a strengths-focused approach to evaluating social justice interventions can be empowering for institutions and the communities they serve.

The Expression of Faërie

The Expression of Faërie Simon J. Cook (bio) The hearer … takes what he hears exactly as if it were speech of his own: he speaks to himself with the words that he hears addressed to him, and thus constructs in himself the idea which those words express. —R. G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art (1938) This essay gathers some fruit from a long struggle to understand J.R.R. Tolkien's "On Fairy-stories." Over the years that I have battled with this intractable text I have come to think of it as 'the impossible essay'. The other side of this coin is that I have found myself frustrated by commentaries that reveal an unwillingness to take seriously what Tolkien says. A learned, ambitious, and authoritative instance of such a commentary is found in volume seven of Tolkien Studies, where Michael Milburn argues that "Imagination may be taken as Tolkien's 'definitive' definition of Faery" (Milburn 55). In this essay I point out the gap between what Tolkien says and what Milburn says that he says. More constructively, I substitute Milburn's guiding idea that Tolkien was a disciple of S. T. Coleridge with the suggestion that Tolkien in his essay is engaging with his late colleague, R. G. Collingwood.1 This substitution brings expression into the picture and suggests that Faërie (as Tolkien spells the word in his essay) is to be understood as a queer relationship between imagination and expression. Concretely, Faërie is found when our minds are ensnared by the metaphors of a fairy story, caught on a point of creative tension between imagination and expression. Collingwood and Tolkien were both fellows of Pembroke College between 1926 and 1935. There appears to be no literature on their possible mutual influence.2 This is understandable to the extent that their conversations were unrecorded and can only be reconstructed by inference from a small handful of printed references to Tolkien in Collingwood's work, and by comparing their various writings on similar subjects. I believe that the first kind of reconstruction would be rewarding, but this essay is concerned only with the latter. My conclusion from comparison of printed material composed after Collingwood left Pembroke is that the two had previously engaged in some extremely interesting conversations about magic. As we shall see, Tolkien's essay reveals a critical engagement with Collingwood's ideas about fairy [End Page 51] stories, while Collingwood's subsequent work on the philosophy of art provides a key that unlocks Tolkien's impossible essay.3 Between 1936 and 1938 Collingwood worked on a book on fairy stories, which he never finished but may now be read in the posthumous volume, The Philosophy of Enchantment. From the perspective I impute to Tolkien, this unfinished book appears a strange, half-way house of a work. On the one hand, Collingwood recognizes his own idea of historical understanding in the new anthropological fieldwork, pioneered by the 1898 Cambridge University expedition to Torres Strait. It was clear to him that once Oxbridge dons like W.R.R. Rivers began to listen to people who believed in magic speaking in their own terms under their own native skies, then pretty much everything said from the comfort of their armchairs by Max Müller, E. B. Tylor, J. G. Frazer—and for that matter, Andrew Lang—about 'primitive' myth, magic, and ritual was self-evidently worthless (Collingwood, Enchantment II, 2). But Collingwood not only recognizes the significance of listening to others talk in their own realm of being; he is convinced by such conversations that, so understood in context, magic is real. What I take to be Tolkien's conclusion is that the good part of this book, as Collingwood left it, consists of a theory of magic as a universal practice, which modern Westerners perform without full awareness of what we are doing, but is still recognized for what it is by the conversational partners of the new anthropological fieldworkers. On the other hand, Collingwood completely fails to recognize the intentions of which fairy stories are evidence. As had Andrew Lang before him, Collingwood thought of fairy tales as folklore, and as such evidence of collective...

Birthday

Birthday Kevin Wilson (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Photo by Denis Defreyne [End Page 32] Tanya, who had only a week ago discovered that she was pregnant, woke to the now unremarkable sensation that her stomach was twisted inside her body. She felt lightheaded, the room not spinning but wobbling around her. Was this morning sickness, she wondered, this intense feeling that you were going to throw up your soul? If she'd go to a doctor, maybe they could tell her what was happening, but she refused to go just yet, still not sure how to proceed with this baby, still hoping for a ghost pregnancy. All she had was the Internet, which told her to drink lots of fluids, as if she wouldn't immediately throw it back up, or to hold fresh mint to her nose, as if she could find fresh mint within a fifty-mile radius of her house. [End Page 33] Her father was in the kitchen, banging around for something to eat that would soak up the alcohol from the night before. She looked at her clock and saw that it was six in the morning; she pulled the covers over her head and wallowed in her misery. A few minutes later, her father walked into the room, eating a Pop-Tart, shaking her exposed foot to wake her. "Dad, please. I need sleep," she said. "When did you get home?" he asked. "Late." "I didn't even notice you come in," he replied. He had been passed out in his easy chair, the TV volume eight clicks too loud, when she crept into the house. Ever since her mother had died, her father slept on the couch, in the easy chair, or sometimes on the front porch when it was warm enough. The bedroom had turned into his closet, a place he entered only to change clothes. "Dad, I'm so tired. And I think I'm getting sick. I need to sleep a little more," Tanya said, fighting the urge to gag. "Well," he continued, "only thing I wanted to say is that maybe you didn't remember, it's Matt's birthday today." "I forgot," Tanya admitted, feeling sheepish that her father, as disconnected from reality as he was, had remembered. "Well, I can't get away from the market today, or anytime soon for that matter. It would cheer him up to see you." "I have to work today," Tanya said. The thought of driving three hours to Knoxville to see her mentally ill brother, who was now living in some kind of sketchy halfway house, filled her with intense anxiety. "Fair enough, honey," her father said. "Maybe give him a call when you get a chance, though he don't have a cell phone, so I left the number for the pay phone that they can use." "Okay, Dad," Tanya said, praying that he would leave. "You be home for dinner tonight?" he asked. "No," she said. "Me neither," he said. And that, finally, was it; her father out of her room, humming a jingle from a commercial, and Tanya still held the secret of her pregnancy within her. The father of this baby raced dirt bikes, was trying to turn pro. Even when she had been having sex with him, she knew it was a bad idea. She [End Page 34] knew what was waiting for him: a broken neck. And if he didn't bend himself into a pretzel, what would there be? But she hadn't cared. She hadn't even considered continuing the relationship. It had just been sex. She was going to community college after this summer, would get a decent job, and one day, deep into the future, she would tell her husband about this boy she'd dated who rode dirt bikes, who had a tattoo of the logo for an energy drink, who kept calling her Tonya. And now, fuck, he was the father of her unborn baby. She would never tell him, and she imagined, deep down, that he would not have believed he was actually the father, would have driven his dirt bike away from...

Student Pharmacists Bridging the Gap with Community Partnerships: Purdue University College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists Chapter

The CPNP Purdue chapter is a student organization that strives to advance mental health awareness and education, reduce stigma, and volunteer in the local community. CPNP Purdue is strengthened by collaboration with partner organizations, including the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Home with Hope, a Lafayette-based recovery housing center. NAMI advocates for effective treatment and education for families affected by mental illness in the surrounding community. Home with Hope provides a continuum of care and environment conducive to recovery following treatment for substance use disorders. These nonprofit partnerships rely heavily upon volunteers, donations, and advocates to provide services and support.

New Dominion constitutionalism at the twilight of the British Empire: An introduction

Abstract This introduction to the symposium on New Dominion constitutionalism sketches the legal configuration of New Dominion status and the intellectual context from which it emerged. Dominionhood originally represented a halfway house between colonial dependence and postcolonial independence, as developed in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. By contrast, New Dominion constitutionalism refers to the transitional constitutional form developed after World War I in Ireland (1922–1937)—the “Bridge Dominion”—and the post-World War II “New” Dominions of India (1947–1950), Pakistan (1947–1956), and Ceylon (later Sri Lanka, 1948–1972). New Dominion constitutionalism represents the first model designed to manage political transitions on a global scale. Both transitional and transnational, New Dominion constitutions served as a provisional frame of government and the juridical basis for the independent constitution. Although the notion of Dominion fell into disuse, it reemerged as the concept of Commonwealth Realm through which the majority of the remaining British colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean acquired independence.

PENANGGULANGAN ANAK JALANAN BERBASIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DI KOTA SERANG

Children must receive good education, positive parenting, protection and other rights so that they can growth properly. But actually, it did not happen in Kota Serang. It was caused by the increasing number of street children. There were increasing number of street children in 2016, 31 children so until now the total was 181 children. This research was about the prevention of street children based on community development with conflict theme and intervention model. This research used biddle theory with three indicators: explanatory, organizational and discussional. This research used qualitative with descriptive method. The data from interview and deep discussion as well as observation used interactive model analysis. The results showed that there were some factors behind the number of street children in Kota Serang. Based on the FGD results, an alternative solution was need to reactivation the existing halfway house and form special team to take care the childreen who live there. Thus, the prevention of street childreen based on community development program could be run effectively.

SAMHSA guidelines for recovery housing emphasize MAT

If there's any question about the appropriateness of medication‐assisted treatment (MAT) using methadone and buprenorphine for recovery housing residents, it has been settled by the most recent report from the federal government: Don't ban it, and, furthermore, do it.

The unbearable lightness of legalism: the historical role of social morality in South East Asian international politics

ABSTRACTThe application of law in South East Asia frustrates many scholars due to its subliminal character. I call this subliminal form of law ‘legalism’. This article adopts the method of historical sociology to trace three evolutionary phases in South East Asia’s international history of legalism to illuminate the cumulative mixture of informality beneath formality in the practice of legalism via ‘social morality’. In pre-colonial times, divinely-guided moral censure and the ethical reputation of particular rulers passed for proto-intersocietal law. In colonial times, international law was foisted by Western powers onto the informal social morality of the region, resulting in power politics operating behind legal manoeuvres. The advent of ASEAN saw a reversion to a preference for even greater informality and soft law. Finally, the post-colonial era witnessed experimentation with Westphalian international law. This has resulted nowadays in a cumulative halfway house of soft legalism operated through diplomatic social morality.