Brother Blues

I found out yesterday that my brother has been released from the TDCJ (Texas Department of Criminal Justice). He is staying in a half-way house near Houston. He began calling Kalin and I yesterday evening, but because we only have cell phones, we were not able to talk to him - He can only call collect, and it won't bill through Cingular, so we have to give a credit card number for the company to bill us. So I called my dad and asked if he had heard from him. He told me he had, and in order for my brother to be released from the half-way house, he needed a permanent address that he would be released to. He was calling us to see if he could use our address. I feel that if they are asking for a permanent address, they want it so that they know where to find him to check on him, but he says that he doesn't have to live there. He says that once he's released, they will come check the property and then he will do a change of address once he finds a place to live. But to me, they want him to have a place to live before they release him. If we give him our address to use, and they come to our house looking for him and he's not here, won't we get into trouble? I want to help him, but I don't know how.

My other dilemma is that if my mother, who is disabled from a stroke in 2004 and lives with her parents, found out that he was out and just needed a permanent address to move back to town, she would want to move back to her old house (which is being rented to pay for her medical bills and such) so that she could give her son a place to live. But if her parents let her move back into that house, she won't be able to pay for her medicine, doctor's visits, food, etc. and my brother will wreck the house again, and won't take care of my mom the way she needs to be cared for. So do I tell her that he's been released to a half-way house, or do I just keep it to myself until he does come back to town and has a place to live?

I just don't know what to do...