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Workers arriving and leaving by bus from a maquiladora (assembly plant), Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Young Mexican women dance at a strip club in downtown Juarez.

Driving at night from the airport in El Paso, Texas to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

A woman crosses train tracks that run through the center of Juarez. Freight trains travel the U.S. - Mexico route several time a day.

Inside a dance hall, women line up waiting for men to ask them to dance. The women charge 5 pesos, approximately 50 cents (U.S.) for a dance. Sometimes for a few dollars more, they will go home with the men.

A young woman dances with a man some years older than her, in a dance hall along Juarez Avenue.

Two women walk home in the late evening hours after finishing their shift at an assembly plant.

More than 400 young women, many of them workers at U.S. assembly plants, have been murdered in this tough Mexican-border factory city.

There is a saying…

15-year-old Rolando, charged with cocain posession, prays in his cell while being locked up for 24-hours in isolation for violating prison rules--in this case failing to make his bed in the morning.

10-year-old Tommy is reunited with his mother at the Webb County juvenile Detention Center, who was sent to juvenile after getting in a fight at school is reunited with his mother.

Their pants are too big. Nothing about the juvenile detention center--not the cinder-block cells, not the orange jumpsuits or the brown plastic slippers--seems made for children. And yet, every day the guests get smaller, and more confused about what…