Halfway Home
Definition
A residential facility housing a released prisoner with no family to return to, for a transitional period while the person finds work.
Related terms
- After-Care Services
- Organised assistance given at and after release, run through state after-care societies and halfway homes, to prevent drift back into destitution.
- Conditional Release
- The general category covering any release, such as parole, that remains subject to conditions and can be revoked on breach.
- Furlough
- A short periodic leave from prison granted to maintain family and social ties, treated in Indian practice as a right earned by...
- Irish System
- Walter Crofton's staged progression from separate confinement through public works and an intermediate stage to release on a ticket-of-leave.
- Mark System
- Alexander Maconochie's scheme at Norfolk Island where a convict earned marks for labour and conduct that bought progression toward conditional freedom.
- Parole
- Conditional early release from a custodial sentence after a portion has been served. The released person remains under supervision and subject to...
- Ticket-of-Leave
- A certificate issued under the Irish system permitting a convict to live in the community before sentence expiry, subject to police reporting...