Feds shutting down Buffalo halfway house for ex-cons

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A halfway house for federal prison inmates in Buffalo that has been in operation for more than 40 years is closing at the end of the year. Buffalo Halfway House, Inc. on Glenwood Avenue, is a private non-profit agency that receives its operating funds from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), but the bureau has notified the home the funding will end on December 31.
Buffalo Halfway House, Inc. board president Judy DeWald said the organization feels blindsided by the b