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Can Austin break the costly cycle of homelessness, jail and crisis? A new program aims to do that.

On a hot August afternoon, Marcus Martin walked out of the Travis County Correctional Complex in Southeast Austin after about six months behind bars, a broad smile stretched across his face. Outside the facility, several people awaited his release in their vehicles, blasting the […]

Can Austin break the costly cycle of homelessness, jail and crisis? A new program aims to do that.

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On a hot August afternoon, Marcus Martin walked out of the Travis County Correctional Complex in Southeast Austin after about six months behind bars, a broad smile stretched across his face.

Outside the facility, several people awaited his release in their vehicles, blasting the […]

He's been incarcerated before, but he believes this time is different.

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On a hot August afternoon, Marcus Martin walked out of the Travis County Correctional Complex in Southeast Austin after about six months behind bars, a broad smile stretched across his face. Outside the facility, several people awaited his release in their vehicles, blasting the […] He's been incarcerated before, but he believes this time is different.

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He's been incarcerated before, but he believes this time is different.

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