COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio is pulling state funding for three halfway houses that a new report found increased the number of participants entering or re-entering the prison system.

The Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections says the $2.1 million spent on those halfway houses in Dayton, Hamilton and Mansfield will be diverted to more successful halfway houses.

Agency spokeswoman Julie Walburn also says the department is giving six community-based correctional facilities that received low marks in the report two months to improve their work with offenders.

The University of Cincinnati study also found that such transitional centers for offenders work best for moderate and high-risk offenders and often had a negative effect on low-risk offenders