halfway house

noun

1. an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
2. any place considered as midway in a course.
3. a residence for former mental patients, convicts, or recovering drug users or alcoholics that serves as a transitional environment between confinement and the return to society.

noun

1. a place to rest midway on a journey
2. the halfway point in any progression
3. a centre or hostel designed to facilitate the readjustment to private life of released prisoners, mental patients, etc
4. British a compromisea halfway house between fixed and floating exchange rates

n.

1. A rehabilitation facility for individuals, such as mental patients or substance abusers, who no longer require the complete facilities of a hospital or other institution but who are not yet prepared to return to their communities.