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48 Urb. Law. 329 (2016)
Location, Location, Mis-Location: How Local Land Use Restrictions Are Dulling Halfway Housing's Criminal Rehabilitation Potential

handle is hein.journals/urban48 and id is 341 raw text is: 329 Location, Location, Mis-Location: How Local Land Use Restrictions Are Dulling Halfway Housing's Criminal Rehabilitation Potential Matthew J. McGowan* FORMER UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT F. KENNEDY LED THE FIRST NATIONWIDE CRUSADE FOR PRE-RELEASE COMMUNITY REHABILITATION CENTERS that sparked an on-again-off-again American love affair with the unique, though not revolutionary, corrections model.' In 1961, the ill-fated United States Attorney General and First Brother could not have seemed more optimistic about the potential for these, as he formally dubbed them, pre-release guidance centers to become a central part of a modern corrections landscape.2 Kennedy pro- claimed in a legal journal that the centers were no longer an experi- ment and instead now a proven method to redirect young lives.3 Now commonly called community correctional centers or resi- dential rehabilitation centers, halfway houses are facilities run by local, state, and federal agencies, private subcontractors using govern- ment funding, or sometimes nonprofits funded solely through charita- ble contributions. They exist in one form or another in most states and have played home to thousands of convicted criminals-either serving alternative sentences or serving the last days of traditional prison stints- over the past half-century. Their popularity and centrality to American justice has waxed and waned in the decades since Kennedy's predic- tion, but, regardless of their prevalence at any one point in time, their span of use has afforded troves of data. * Attorney at Pulman, Cappuccio, Pullen, Benson & Jones, LLP in San Antonio, Texas; J.D., Texas A&M University School of Law, May 2015; B.A. in journalism, Texas Tech University, 2008. Author would like to thank Professor Lisa Rich for her extensive insight and guidance. Author would also like to thank Whitley Zachary for her patient, witty, sometimes ruthless, and always invaluable editing. 1. See generally Francis T. Cullen, Rehabilitation: Beyond Nothing Works, 42 CIME & JUST. 299 (2013) (discussing the fluctuations in popularity and use of halfway hours, as well as Kennedy's role in supporting the institutions). 2. See Robert F. Kennedy, Halfway Houses Pay Off, 10 CIME & DELINQ. 1 (1964). 3. Id. at 7.

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