Twenty employees have been hired so far, and 30 more will be added by the summer.
Some of the new center's residents will have completed their prison time; others will be nearly finished.
Residents will be kept under tight supervision and have to get jobs and pay rent.
All will be screened to weed out those likely to commit crimes again.
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