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Los Angeles. June Sands, 36, who has struggled with alcohol and drug addiction since she was a teenager. Five years ago she had a daughter Victoria, who she struggled to raise then gave up to her parents.

The dust and destruction of open coal pit mining in Western Pennsylvania.

Chet Switala, a life-long coal miner, a half mile down a narrow New Mexico shaft.

Sam Richards takes his daily bath with his new puppy that he's named Tom.

Joy in Brooklyn. Beneath the Manhattan Bridge, a Puerto Rican grandmother, her daughters and granddaughters enjoy the cold spray of an open hydrant on a particularly hot day.

The skull sinkside at the Newark morgue is that of a man murdered in 1992 in a gang-style slaying. Killed by a shotgun blast to the head, he was dumped beside the New Jersey turnpike. Since then the body remained unclaimed.

The medical examiner assigns a number to the autopsied homicide before he's placed in the deep freeze.

The Newark, NJ medical examiner attends to the first homicide of the day in Newark – a man killed by his daughter.

At a Bronx police station a member of the Crime Scene Unit dusts for fingerprints a cheap pistol found near a man shot to death.

A photographer/detective from the Crime Scene Unit photographs the dead man, who had apparently been pursued down a hallway then murdered.