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Residents have no say over their RM3 billion budget or who runs the streets under the appointed system.

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Halfway houses help prevent inmates with drug history from reoffending: Prison service

About 600 drug rehabilitation centre inmates are placed on community-based programmes like halfway houses yearly.

Selarang Halfway House is one of the 11 such houses in Singapore that works with the Singapore Prison Service to help drug offenders during the tail end of their sentence.

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