Hope Village

D.C.’s Hope Village, the only federally-contracted halfway house for men in the city, will now keep its contract until Oct. 31, according to company spokesperson Phinis Jones. This news, which the Federal Bureau of Prisons would not…

District residents are heavily debating the merits of a new halfway house in the city instead of staying with the present facility, and many returning-citizens activists want change.

The widow of a man killed in a gruesome hatchet attack in Tennessee has filed a wrongful death suit against the D.C. Department of Corrections and a Southeast Washington halfway house.

Demetric Martin is careful to say his time at the Hope Village halfway house was not all bad. Martin, who finished a recent prison sentence at Hope Village and was released in September, says some employees were fair and helpful.

A District halfway house that lost a multimillion-dollar contract in November for refusing to house sex offenders might have a chance to rebid on the contract after partially winning a formal protest to the federal government.