The Revised Bill of The Penal Execution and Correctional Treatment Act was enacted on 21. dec. 2007. This Act surpasses Korean current Prison Act both in the protection of prisoners rights and the improvement of correctional treatment. The Korean Prison Act has been revised several times for the purpose of strengthening the ability of adaptation to a society for prisoners. To resolve the conflicts between the idea that inmates have their consitutional rights and the reality that basic rights of inmates could be confined as necessary on the other hand, we should discuss more concretely about the scopes and ranges of inmates rights As far as many proposed plan is concerned, it seems too idealistic, is hard to achieve in reality.Therefore I suggested some alternative ideas such as developing correctional programs. It is exactly Halfway Housing Program.Inmates go through great hardship to rejoin community. there is a gap between their situation and the real life they are facing after coming out of prison.Since inmates had an experience to be separated from the community for a long time, they are likely to think of having an unrealistic life plan not matching well with real life. To solve these problems, it's necessary for them to be trained by rational treatment in the prison and to be well adjusted by social training before coming out of prison. Among these systems, halfway house is a epochal rehabilitation system. As it makes inmates to assist their access to various community resources as well as to know using community resources, it leads community's remedy and reintegration.Also it contributes to provide food and shelter, to help job place, work preparedness and rehabilitation and to reduce overcrowding inmates of correctional institutions. The Korea Correctional Service has introduced a halfway house as a first attempt in Anyang Correctional Institution in January, 2009 and is now operating it successfully.Halfway house is a system to achieve the modern correctional goal (e.g. rehabilitation) through providing temporal residence for parolee or released inmates and programs to promote social adaptation and to prevent recidivism.Korea Correctional Service in Ministry of Justice with understanding of the importance of Halfway housing program has established ‘Dream House’ in Anyang prison as a community-based halfway treatment and has a plan to extend the halfway housing program. To achieve this goal, this study explores the reality of American and Canadian halfway housing programs which suggests various lessons for Korean halfway program. In addition, this study provides a suggestion about the development of selection, the development of programs, and the evaluating measures of halfway programs.