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On the street at night

Working Broadway at night, AJ is looking for a 'date.' She usually works alone, but tonight Jim Bob keeps her company for a little while.

Story Summary, AJ and Jim Bob, both 24 years old, have been a couple since age 12. Small-town-Ohio castoffs, they came to New York City anticipating glamour, wealth and excitement. Now crack addicts, they support themselves through prostitution and…

At a battered women's shelter in Minneapolis, residents with their children stand in front of a mural painted by a battered woman who had been a resident in the shelter 10 years before.

Mary McKenzie in the Women's Advocates Shelter with her three children. They are looking at family pictures which show glimpses of a once happy, all-America family. Jessica, on the left, said, 'This is what we looked like when Raychile was just a…

JoAnn Hennum, a battered wife who was driven to kill. She is now serving an eight and a half year sentence in Minnesota's Shakopee prison. 'The hellhole I came from was a prison much worse than this could ever be.'

Groups of men meet weekly to talk about the violence they have aimed at the women they say they love. But whether or not batterers can change their behavior is disputed. The ones who have managed to stop their violence and the need to control their…

At 2,00 a.m. in a shelter, one woman recounts her latest battering. Another woman jumps up, 'You put up with his craziness too damn long,' she shouts. 'What does he have to do to make you understand-kill you?' The woman stares back. Finally she says,…

Two days later, still in the hospital and unable to hold down any food in her brusied stomach, Diane examines her face and mumbles encouragingly to herself, 'Well, I guess I don't look too bad.'

As doctors uncover tire marks on her battered body, Diane Brown calls out the name of her boyfriend who had run her over with his van. For the 24-year-old woman, it was the culmination of three years of physical abuse.