 A lack of space to put the prisoners at halfway houses is now causing extreme problems. The result is that many, potentially thousands of prisoners are staying inside the institutions longer than necessary, awaiting bed space at halfway houses. And in Washington, D.C., we don't have our own halfway house for our men to return to. So men and women are being overly incarcerated for longer periods of time due to the bureaucracy and the jibber-jabber in D.C. and other cities.