The continuous withdrawal of mental health funding has turned jails and prisons across the nation into the default mental health facilities.
The system designed for security is now trapped with treating mental illness and the mentally ill are often trapped inside the system with nowhere else to go.
Documentary photographer Jenn Ackerman takes us inside the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit of the Kentucky State Reformatory to see how a state is meeting the needs of this growing population.
With a decline in large families in America, the Hewitts with 12 children believe a bigger family produces more resources. The family tries to balance these resources, space and attention to produce something they say money can't -- love.
Out of the Mines investigates the impact winter has on the coal industry and people that live and work outside of the mines in Appalachia.
