KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) — The federal Bureau of Prisons has selected a halfway house under construction in Kearney to house federal prisoners.

The selection was announced Friday. The news has cleared the way for the halfway house being built by Dismas Charities. Those plans had been put in jeopardy when a similar facility in Hastings objected.

Dismas vice president Steven Vice says the center will open Nov. 1 and will house about 25 people. The $594,750 contract will run for one year instead of the five-year, $6.7 million contract awarded a year ago. That award was vacated when the Bristol Station, the Hastings center run by Western Alternative Corrections, objected.

The goal of the center is to ease the transition between prison and real-world responsibilities.