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Feds took $44 million contract from troubled Dismas House board, but new nonprofit has struggles of its own. 

After years of failing to oversee halfway house contract, Bureau of Prisons awards it to a new provider. But will the accountability improve?

A new group will run the federal halfway house for the ºüÀêÊÓƵ area, and the service is moving to the former home of the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Lucrative Bureau of Prisons contract for halfway house services is up for bid.

Gary Bess says Dismas House has hired an accounting company to perform an audit and “make sure our financial house is in order.� 

Rallygoers Thursday argued that drug abuse at Dismas House and other problems mean its contract with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons shouldn't be renewed.

How did a gun get into the facility for former federal inmates?

Bureau of Prisons puts halfway house contract out to bid. 

Residences for former federal inmates run by Marvin Shelton have connection to Dismas House of ºüÀêÊÓƵ, whose board paid itself millions of dollars from a federal contract.

Marvin Shelton says God led him to work with men trying to escape addiction.

Family that has made millions of dollars off of halfway house for federal prisoners also used nonprofit to buy an out-of-state lake house.

When Gary Bess moved from city to the county, an investment company owned by a charity bought his house.

Gary Bess and his wife were on board of organization that was a free spender at big events like Mardi Gras and the Forest Park Balloon Glow.