Slideshow: In Transition: Finding Home One Step at a Time
Originally from Phoenix, Dorothy “Dori” McCarty, 47, now lives at Five Points Transitional Housing in downtown Tucson. She moved there on June 17 last year, having lived in a halfway house in Tucson for a year. Before that, she served five years in prison for selling cocaine to an undercover police officer in Phoenix.
A version of this article appeared in print on page 4 of the Tucson 2010 edition of The New York Times Student Journalism Institute.