Halfway house

A halfway house is a place that allows people with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities to learn the social and other skills necessary to integrate or re-integrate into society.

The environment features varying degrees of privacy, social work, medical, psychiatric, and other similar services as well as residence halls for the patients. Two main types are found in the U.S.

In the first type, upon admission, a patient is classified as to the type of disability, ability to re-integrate into society, and expected time frame for doing so. They may be placed into an open bay same-sex dormitory similar to that found in military basic training with fifty or a hundred similar residents in a gymnasium-type setting all going through the same thing at the same time. As the patient is able to increase his skill level and decrease his dependency on support services, the dorm members become fewer to the point where, at the final stage before being able to get their own apartment, the patient may have only one or two roommates.

Halfway house (disambiguation)

A halfway house is a community-release institution for prisoners

Halfway house may also refer to:

Film and TV

Music and literature

Places

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Halfway House (mixtape)

Halfway House is an independent album by American rapper Joe Budden, released on October 28, 2008 exclusively in digital format through Amalgam Digital.Halfway House was released when Joe Budden's second studio album, Padded Room, has been pushed back. Its release marked Joe Budden's first return to the Billboard 200 in five years, and approximately 3,000 downloads were sold in its first week of release. The album is notable for featuring the first collaboration between the four members of Slaughterhouse on the track, "Slaughterhouse."

Critical reception

Upon its release, Halfway House was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. AllHipHop's Greg Watkins gave the album a seven out of ten, saying "While Halfway House takes a slight dip from the high standards set forth by the Mood [Muzik] series, it is still a respectable effort. Joe Budden proves that he is still one of the game’s best kept secrets regardless of a release date." Nathan S. of DJBooth.net gave the album a four out of five, saying "Joe Budden is to album delays what Snoop is to weed smoking – just about everyone does it now and again, but not like these guys. These delays seemingly stem from Budden's refusal to put out an inferior product, which is what makes him so good, but that kind of perfectionism can be paralyzing. Let's just hope the next time we hear from Budden it will be because he released Padded Room, not ended up in one."