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Recent Examples of halfway house
According to public broadcasting station WHYY, the facility had operated as a halfway house before a new deal was reached with ICE in February for its use as a detention facility.
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Niall Stanage, The Hill, 21 May 2025
Prosecutor says Black 'slipped through the cracks' of parole
In January, Black completed a nine-and-a-half-year prison sentence and was under state supervision in a halfway house with an ankle monitor, officials said.
—David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Peterson noted that escapes from minimum-security facilities, like halfway houses, are much more common than those at jails and prisons.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
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.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
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Niall Stanage, The Hill, 21 May 2025
Prosecutor says Black 'slipped through the cracks' of parole
In January, Black completed a nine-and-a-half-year prison sentence and was under state supervision in a halfway house with an ankle monitor, officials said.
—David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Peterson noted that escapes from minimum-security facilities, like halfway houses, are much more common than those at jails and prisons.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
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.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway house
Noun
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The walkout lower level includes a full home gym and sauna.—
Randy Tucker,
The Enquirer,
26 July 2025
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That’s a buzz Longstaff, 27, cannot wait to experience as a home player in less than a month when Everton arrive, under the lights, for both sides’ 2025-26 season opener on Monday, August 18.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
26 July 2025
Noun
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It was expanded in 2021 and again in 2025 to include chronic pain, hospice care and terminal illness, among other conditions.—
Marley Malenfant,
Austin American Statesman,
22 July 2025
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Meek died July 10 while in hospice care at a skilled nursing facility in Yorba Linda.—
Steve Fryer,
Oc Register,
22 July 2025
Noun
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Everyone knows of a brother or sister, an aunt or uncle, a friend, grandparent or great-grandparent who has vanished at the schools, at the Indian hospitals or sanatoriums, in lunatic asylums or from the streets.—
Tanya Talaga
July 24,
Literary Hub,
24 July 2025
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Maybe Pippa has a nervous breakdown and checks herself into a high-end spa/sanatorium in western Massachusetts.—
John Kenney,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
Noun
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Bolsheviks shot its monks in the first years of the Soviet Union, and converted the complex into a sanitarium and a cinema.—
Ainara Tiefenthäler,
New York Times,
19 Dec. 2022
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Camp and sanitarium admissions were voluntary, but may have been subject to family pressures.—
Neuroskeptic,
Discover Magazine,
21 Feb. 2018
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Following the incident, the woman was taken by Nashville EMS to a local medical center to receive stitches, police said, per the court document.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA Today,
22 July 2025
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Enter Prime Healthcare, which claims to be the medical center’s savior.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
10 July 2025
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