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"no" To Halfway House

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
July
Year
1976
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U.S. District Judge Robert E. DeMascio has ruled that the Michigan Department of Corrections will have to find another site for its planned halfway house in the Cass Corridor, on Second Avenue across the street from Cass Technical High School (SUN, June 3). The Corrections Department was taken to court by the Detroit Board of Education, which feared that the halfway house would jeopardize its desegregation program by causing many parents to pull their students out of Cass Tech. The plan was also opposed by Concerned Citizens of Cass Corridor, a coalition of community groups led by Rev. Lewis Redmond, pastor of the Cass Methodist Church.

Cass Corridor already is home to eight halfway houses in a 5-by-8 block area, plus some 25 other social service facilities- including eight homes for the aged and 16 foster homes for mentally handicapped and disturbed adults, as well as the Salvation Army's Harbor Light Center for alcoholics.

The Salvation Army, owner of the former Evangeline Home for young women, the building scheduled to be converted to the halfway house, may now sue the Corrections Department, which had an option to purchase the building.