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Richie Goins, Jr. opens the door of the trailer in search of some puppies while his uncle Timmy, 25, sleeps on the couch. Timmy has cerebral palsy and mental handicaps and requires around the clock care.

The Goins family children circle around the table for dinner in Chauncey, OH. The extended family occupies the corner of a street in Chauncey and everyone is spread out between a trailer home and a house. The trailer home is without running water so…

Michelle Goins cooks dinner for her extended family outside of their home in Chauncey, OH as the children run and play in the fading light.

Richie Goins Jr. watches from the window of his parents’ trailer as cinderblocks are brought in as the foundation for his grandmother's new trailer. Leetha Goins and her children Timmy, 25, Troy, 16, and grandson Will, for whom she cares, were…

A family walks home across the tracks in Glouster, OH on Saturday, May 17, 2008.

Once known for natural resources such as coal, salt, clay and timber, Southeastern Ohio has been stripped of its resources by extractive industries. When nothing was left the corporations vacated the region, adversely affecting the economy and…

Together with their families Edgar and Denis live in El Mesquital, a neighborhood ruled by the Maras Salvatrucha. - We have to stay in this area. If we move further up it becomes dangerous. That is the area of Dieocho. I live for my neighborhood, I…

Several gang members tell us about the cooperation with the police which make the drug sales and their extortions run smoothly. Small bribes to make the police look away, bigger ones to get rid of rivals from the opposing gang.

Jorge's rite of initiation was to kill a gang member who had broken the rules. He shot him in the head from behind with his 38. Afterwards he was celebrated as a hero. Jorge became a good killer. He learned what angle to use not to get blood on his…

Out of Guatemalas 13 million inhabitants 60 percent live in poverty. The new members recruited by the Maras are usually between eleven and fifteen years old.