art by Zeke Barbaro / Photo by Suzy Hazelwood If you are arrested in Austin this Friday, a lot of things will go how you'd expect: An officer will bring you Downtown to Central Booking, a sort of cinder block version of a DMV waiting room that sits in the basement of the Downtown jail. There, Travis County Sheriff's Office staff – often working on a skeleton crew and sometimes working double shifts – will search you, take your fingerprints, and snap a photo of you in your gray-and-black stripes.

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