halfway house
Let an agent explain halfway houses and their purposes, relay kinds, regulation and evidence from criminal justice and health sources with attribution, describe how they operate, and distinguish halfway houses from prisons, hospitals, sober living homes and supported housing, without giving personal legal or medical advice.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a halfway house is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a halfway house, and how does it differ from a prison, hospital, sober living home and supported housing? definition
- Is the question about the concept, a kind, policy or a personal placement? boundary
Kinds
Kinds.
Kinds
Kinds.
- What are re-entry, recovery, mental health and youth halfway houses? definition
- Which entry fits the specific kind? action
Operate Operation and regulation.
Programmes
Programmes.
Programmes
Programmes.
- What support, rules and programmes do halfway houses provide? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Regulation
Regulation.
Regulation
Regulation.
- How are halfway houses licensed, contracted and inspected? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Evidence Evidence and debate.
Outcomes
Outcomes.
Outcomes
Outcomes.
- What does research say about recidivism, recovery and other outcomes, with findings attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation attributed? boundary
Debates
Debates.
Debates
Debates.
- What debates exist about funding, siting and privatisation, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits prisoner reentry? action
Context History and access.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did halfway houses develop from 19th-century aid societies to modern programmes? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of corrections? action
Access
Finding help.
Access
Access.
- How do people access halfway houses, and where can families find information? action
- Is the user seeking a personal placement, which needs the responsible agency? boundary
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.BLT
What it is Filled
A residential facility that helps people transition from institutions such as prisons, hospitals or treatment centres back into the community, providing supervised accommodation, support and programmes for people leaving incarceration, recovering from addiction or mental illness, or moving from care; halfway houses vary in regulation and are debated in criminal justice and health policy.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain halfway houses and their purposes, relay kinds, regulation and evidence from criminal justice and health sources with attribution, describe how they operate, and distinguish halfway houses from prisons, hospitals, sober living homes and supported housing, without giving personal legal or medical advice.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Transitional
- Supervised
- Community based
- Multiple client groups
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Disclose that a named person lives in or left a halfway house.
- Give personal legal, parole or medical advice in place of a lawyer or clinician.
- Report a resident's rule breach to authorities on its own initiative.
- Present one side of the policy debate about such facilities as settled.
Only with a human decision
- Any report about a resident to parole, police or health authorities.
- Decisions about a resident's placement, discharge or privileges.
May
- Explain what halfway houses do and how they are regulated in a given jurisdiction.
- Help a resident find published information about their programme, rights or next steps.
Moral aspects Filled
- Residents are stigmatized, and disclosure can cost them housing, work and family ties.
- Poorly regulated houses have exposed residents to unsafe conditions and abuse.
Who is affected
- Residents
- Their families
- Neighbouring communities
Owners Filled
Steward
The operator of the house; corrections, health or licensing authorities oversee it.
Master systems
- Facility licensing records
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q67140121 - registry parent class
related
- residential facility - in registry terms
- reentry - after incarceration
- sober living house - which is peer-run
- corrections agency - or health authorities
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.halfway-house
- Wikidata: Q3565622 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3565622)
Direct properties required Filled
- US federal residential reentry centres: over 150 count
- typical stay: weeks to months note
- term in use: since the mid 20th century note
Recognition required Filled
- Transitional residential facility
- Residential re-entry centres, recovery houses, transitional housing
- Prisons detain; hospitals treat; sober living homes are peer-run; supported housing is long-term
- A residential building with shared living and supervision.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain purposes and kinds
- relay regulation and evidence
- describe operation
- distinguish related facilities
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Agents giving personal legal or medical advice
- Partisan framing of policy debates
- Quality and safety problems in poorly regulated houses
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Corrections contracts and standards for re-entry centres
- Health and social care licensing
- Zoning and community rules
Context of use required Filled
- Supporting transition from institutions to community.
- halfway houses for people leaving prison
- halfway houses for addiction recovery
- halfway houses for mental health transition
- youth transitional homes
- halfway houses in different national systems
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q3565622: halfway house - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Halfway house - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should residential reentry centre and recovery house be separate primary entries?
- How should criminal justice and health sources be linked?
- How should national differences be recorded?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q3565622/spec.json