With prisons filled to capacity, privately owned rehabilitation centers and halfway houses have eagerly posed themselves as a pressure relief valve to house prisoners almost ready to return to society. For years it's been widely known that if the Federal government could use money as a Band-Aid instead of taking time to identify and correct a problem in its flawed system, they may more likely than not choose a path of least resistance – find more money and throw it around. Corporations have continued to capitalize on this weakness and even though we're seen as predators to every other country, we're constantly being preyed upon from within. The prisons are overcrowded. To create space once an inmate has served close to 65 to 70% of their prison sentence, the prison submits them to region to be evaluated for placement in the RRC program, which is in charge of locating and contracting the halfway house. If the inmate passes their critiques successfully, he or she is assigned a bunk at a local privately owned facility, in or around the city that they plan to reside in. The Federal government cuts the half way a hefty check to provide basic needs for the inmate, with the agreement that, if the inmate doesn't follow the rules or regulations of the facility, the BOP will retake custody of the inmate, and the halfway house keeps the check. Sounds like a good deal all around right? Due to the above-mentioned overcrowding, the prisons and the regions are no longer critiquing inmates ready for release to the same high standards. Inmates with severe drug problems, violent tendencies, emotional and mental issues, or with no family support are being sent to these greedy halfway houses and put into society. The halfway house is now a revolving door because of the safety net set up by the Federal government's Bureau of Prison. Any minor infraction or rule violation committed by the inmate is pushed straight past the region or the RRM staff and right into the lap of the BOP. Once the halfway house receives their check for housing the inmate, he or she is shipped back to prison, opening up another bed for the process to repeat again.