Money, Power, Respect

Pictures Of My Neighborhood by Brenda Ann Kenneally.

Bellevue

The 30th Street Men´s Shelter, otherwise known as Bellevue, is New York City's largest homeless shelter. A combination of mentally ill, parolees, substance abusers and people simply down on their luck are all housed together in this shelter.

Produced by Eric Johnson and narrated by tenant Carl Foye, "Bellevue" gives the viewer an insiders perspective on what it feels like to live there and how he keeps a positive outlook on life.

The Ninth Floor

In the 1970s, New York artist Joe Smith rented an apartment overlooking Fifth Avenue. In the years that followed, the rooms became a black hole of drug addiction, hopelessness, and squandered dreams.  A chance meeting with one of the residents drew photojournalist Jessica Dimmock to the apartment, where she embarked on an almost three-year journey into the lives of those living there.

The Girl In The Window

Three years ago a police officer found a girl lying in her roach-infested room, naked except for an overflowing diaper. The child, pale and skeletal, communicated only through grunts. She was almost 7 years old. This is her story by Lane DeGregory and Melissa Lyttle.

Trapped: Mental Illness In America’s Prisons

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.

Trapped, by Ackerman Gruber Images, 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.