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Tasha Hughes, bathes her daughter, Madison, 4, as Jeffrey Dumich holds a flashlight outside their room at the damaged American Quality Lodge where they continue to live without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, in Panama City, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. Simply getting through the day is a struggle at the low-rent motel where dozens of people are living in squalor amid destruction left by the hurricane without any place else to go.
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Tasha Hughes, bathes her daughter, Madison, 4, in a storage bin outside their room at the damaged American Quality Lodge where they continue to live without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, in Panama City, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. So there people sit, most without transportation and many without phones for communication, waiting for a fresh delivery of food and water. Some trade cigarettes for other items, and children are given baths in rubber storage bins with room temperature bottled water.
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The moon shines above as Nola Davis, right, brushes the hair of granddaughter, Jayden Billingly, 10, before going to bed in their room at the damaged American Quality Lodge where they continue to live in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, in Panama City, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. Rooms reek with the pungent smell of wet clothes and perspiration; windows are missing from many. Long-term residents, who pay out about $180 a week per room, abandoned blown-out rooms for ones with fewer leaks or doors that will shut.
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A resident walks past a shattered window of a room at a damaged motel where guests continue to stay in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. Joe Donahue, who works for a company that was taking over management of the motel as Michael struck, said he doesnt mind people staying there for now. And hes even been driving store to store in search of water and feminine products for the women. I have no place to send them because everything is booked, he said. Its a nightmare.
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Residents come out out to a Red Cross food truck visiting the damaged motel where many continue to live despite the destruction in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. Families huddle under makeshift tents and in breezeways strewn with broken glass and roofing fragments, seeking escape from the midday sun as the temperature climbs to the mid-80s; they line up in a parking lot for food and water whenever volunteers and church groups stop by.
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Jeannie, center left, and husband Jason Holcombe wait in the hot sun for food being distributed outside the damaged American Quality Lodge where they continue to live in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, in Panama City, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. Basically, if you were living here before the storm you were homeless. This was our last resort, said Jeannie Holcombe, who has been at the motel a few months with her husband. Its worse now.
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Wes Allen, Jr., from left, sits with his father Wes Allen, Sr., sister Alison, and mother Vicki outside their room at a damaged motel where many residents continue to live in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. Many residents rode out the storm and have no place to go even though many of the rooms are uninhabitable. Residents say Wes Allen, Sr. risked his own life to rescue 10 people from rooms torn to shreds by the wind.
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Jeannie Holcombe retrieves crutches for someone in need from a damaged room at the American Quality Lodge in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, in Panama City, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. One resident resorted to salvaging pennies from the floors and drawers of the rooms. He had to climb through a shattered window and walk across a soggy floor littered with shards of glass and personal items like deodorant, hair care products and clothes.
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Gabrielle Morgan, center rear, braids the hair of her husband Santional as they sit by a lantern with their children from left, Decoya, 13, Isabella, 3 mos., Gabriella, 3, and Lakevia, 15, in their room at the damaged American Quality Lodge where they continue to live without power in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. Nighttime means relief from the heat, yet it also brings the threat of looters.
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Tasha Whitt sits by a window in her candlelit room at the damaged American Quality Lodge where she continues to live in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, in Panama City, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. Whitt, who broke her foot during the storm, worries about looters at night who residents say have taken money, jewelry, food and even rain-soaked clothes from rooms ripped apart and left open to the elements by Michael.
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Kevin Parker, center right, sits with his wife Lilith, while playing a song he wrote titled "My Life's Been Hell," on the keyboard while joined by neighbor Chris Thomas outside the damaged American Quality Lodge where they continue to live in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, in Panama City, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. Residents say someone from FEMA had been by, but no one has offered them any better alternatives yet.
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Linda Green is arrested for assault on a police officer and disorderly conduct as police attempted to apprehend her son who was wanted for an outstanding warrant in LaFollette, Tenn., Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Green, who has struggled with drug addiction, has been arrested over 50 times in Campbell County. The opioid crisis is putting more women behind bars across the U.S. _ tearing apart families and squeezing communities that lack treatment programs and permanent solutions. In one Tenn. county jail, most female inmates have long-term addiction problems. Women in jail are the fastest-growing correctional population in America. Between 1980 and 2009, the arrest rate for drug possession or use tripled for women, while it doubled for men. Opioid abuse has exacerbated the problem.
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Jessica Morgan, high on meth and the opioid pain medication Opana, sits in a holding cell after being booked for possession of a Schedule II narcotic at the Campbell County Jail in Jacksboro, Tenn., Monday, April 23, 2018. More than a decade ago, there were rarely more than 10 women in the jail. Now the population is routinely around 60.
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Samantha Marlow brushes her teeth in a distorted metal mirror in her cell at the Campbell County Jail in Jacksboro, Tenn., Tuesday, May 8, 2018. Medical costs for both male and female inmates also are an enormous burden, nearly doubling since 2015 to top $1 million last year, according to county officials. Hepatitis, infections and dental problems are not unusual.
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Inmate Blanche Ball, 30, performs her rendition of a turtle on its back for cellmates at the Campbell County Jail in Jacksboro, Tenn., Tuesday, March 20, 2018. Inmates sleep, shower and eat in the same room. On their one hour outside the cell, they can visit an exercise room, but it has no equipment so the women improvise, rolling toilet paper into balls they swat around, using their plastic sandals as makeshift tennis rackets.
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Robby Wilson, 10, plays basketball with his grandparents Cathy, right and Eddy Sweat, who have custody of him as their daughter, Robby's mother, Krystle Sweat, sits in jail in Jacksboro, Tenn., Monday, April 23, 2018. The Sweats have raised Krystles son since he was about 3. Over the years, theyve paid her rent, bought her cars, and invited her and her boyfriend to share their home. Sweat wound up stealing tools, a computer and camera _ anything she could pawn.
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Inmate Krystle Sweat blows a kiss to her son Robby, 10, during a video conference as he visits her at the Campbell County Jail in Jacksboro, Tenn., Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Robby hasnt hugged or even touched her since Christmas Day 2015, just before Sweat wound up back behind bars. He says that on the day shes released, he wants to show her how he can ride no-hands on his bike. Sweat laughs, but knows their reunion must wait.
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Inmate Mary Sammons, 41, left, is comforted by cellmate Blanche Ball, 30, after Sammons learned days ago her son was murdered, in the Campbell County Jail in Jacksboro, Tenn., Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Sammons, who was arrested on drug charges, suspects her son's murder was drug related. "I always pictured my kids burying me, not me having to bury my children. Young kids are losing their life over bad dope. This is crazy. It's so not worth it. He was a pretty boy. He was beautiful.
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Cellmates from left Elsie Kniffen, 39, Mary Sammons, 41, Blanche Ball, 30 and Sarai Keelean, 35, join hands after a prayer in the Campbell County Jail in Jacksboro, Tenn., Tuesday, March 20, 2018. Many of these women say jail should help prepare them for life outside, maybe with a Narcotics Anonymous group, counseling or education programs such as those offered in state prisons. Lt. Mallory Campbell, assistant jail administrator says shed like to offer college courses or vocational training because if they dont leave here with a skill, theyre going to go back to what they know. But there isnt money for programs or staff.
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Inmate Krystle Sweat lays in her bed before falling asleep in her cell at the Campbell County Jail in Jacksboro, Tenn., Monday, April 23, 2018. For years now, she has cycled in and out of jail, arrested more than two dozen times for robbery, driving violations and other crimes _ almost all related to her drug addiction that culminated in a $300-a-day pain pill habit. Sweat's tried to quit, but nothing has worked. Now she says shes ready to make the break when shes paroled again, possibly this summer. Im almost 33, she says. I dont want to continue living like this. I want to be someone my family can count on.
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Danny Peters, 61, get his sons Journey, 10, and Chance, 8, rear, ready for bed as he cares for them since his ex-wife and the boys' mother, Crystal French, serves time in the Campbell County Jail in LaFollette, Tenn., Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Its been tough. She was a supermom," said Peters. Thats probably when it hurts the most. A mommys love is the thing I cant give them.
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Tammy Perry, 53, walks through the street in LaFollette, Tenn., where she is currently staying with an older man after getting out of jail, Monday, April 23, 2018. Perry exchanges sex for money or drugs to support her addiction. "I'm scared of a new start," said Perry when asked if she ever thought about leaving the county where she grew up to start over someplace new. "I'm scared of failing. I'm scared of feeling worse than what I was."
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Linda Green, 51, who has struggled with drug addiction, cries as she's booked into the Campbell County Jail, the second time in the past two weeks, after being arrested for public intoxication, a parole violation, in Jacksboro, Tenn., Thursday, March 29, 2018. Women in jail are the fastest-growing correctional population in America. Between 1980 and 2009, the arrest rate for drug possession or use tripled for women, while it doubled for men. Opioid abuse has exacerbated the problem.
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Courtney Hensley, left, cries while attending mass with her mother, Darlene Hensley, right, and sister, Dania Hensley, at Saint Dominic Catholic Church in Panama City, Fla., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018. "That's the scariest thing I've ever seen," said Darlene who rode out the storm with her daughters at home. "The gates of hell opened up on us. You got to come and thank God you're alive." The storm became the most devastating hurricane to hit Florida in decades when it made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph. So far, 45 people were killed across Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia.
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Bob Richling carries Iris Darden, 84, out of her flooded home as her daughter-in-law, Pam Darden, gathers her belongings in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in Spring Lake, N.C., Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. More than 30 inches (76 centimeters) of rain from Florence fell in some parts of the state and along with the storm surge, caused widespread flooding that damaged tens of thousands of homes and other buildings. Authorities have confirmed 40 storm-related deaths.
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Josh Starnes collects water from the gulf to flush toilets at his damaged home from hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Fla., Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. The storm became the most devastating hurricane to hit Florida in decades when it made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph. So far, 45 people were killed across Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia.
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Russ Lewis covers his eyes from a gust of wind and a blast of sand as Hurricane Florence approaches Myrtle Beach, S.C., Friday, Sept. 14, 2018.
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Searchers pause against the scenery while looking for clues in the disappearance of Ashley HeavyRunner Loring in Babb, Mont., who went missing last year from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Thursday July 12, 2018. Ashley's disappearance is one small chapter in what one senator calls an epidemic, the unsettling story of missing and murdered Native American women and girls. No one knows precisely how many there are in the U.S., partly because some go unreported and others havent been accurately documented. A 2017 analysis by Montanas Department of Justice found Native Americans account for 30 percent of missing girls and women _ 22 of 72 _ even though they represent only 3.3 percent of the state's population.
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Randy Ortiz combs a field outside a trailer during a search for Ashley HeavyRunner Loring in Valier, Mont., who went missing from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation last year, Wednesday, July 11, 2018. Ashley's cousin lived at the trailer, and there are reports it's among the last places she was seen.
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George A. Hall draws his pistol as grizzly bears are heard nearby during a search in Valier, Mont., for Ashley HeavyRunner Loring who went missing last year from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Wednesday, July 11, 2018. The searchers have trekked through fields, gingerly stepping around snakes and ran from grizzly bears lurking in the brush.
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Randy Ortiz, left, shows a bone he found to George A. Hall as they look for clues outside a trailer in Valier, Mont., during a search for Ashley HeavyRunner Loring, who went missing last year from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Wednesday, July 11, 2018. The group found several bones and alerted police who responded in five squad cars. After studying the bones, an officer broke the news _ they're animal bones.
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Kimberly Loring, left, touches her forehead to her little sister, Jonnilyn, 17, as she says goodbye before heading out on a search for their missing sister Ashley with their cousin, Lissa Loring, left, outside their home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Mont., Wednesday, July 11, 2018. "I'm the older sister. I need to do this," says 24-year-old Kimberly. "I don't want to search until I'm 80. But if I have to, I will."
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A poster of Ashley HeavyRunner Loring hangs on the wall as her sister, Kimberly, walks through her room at their grandmother's home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Mont., Friday, July 13, 2018. Kimberly was 8 when she made a promise to Ashley, then 5, while the girls were briefly in a foster home. "'We have to stick together,'" she'd said to her little sister. "I told her I would never leave her. And if she was going to go anywhere, I would find her."
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Randy Ortiz, right, pushes Ronnie Loring, 3, the cousin of Ashley HeavyRunner Loring, as they take a break from searching for her on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Mont., Thursday July 12, 2018. The family has logged about 40 searches but there's no way to cover a 1.5 million acre reservation, an expanse larger than Delaware.
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A couple walks through the main business district on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Mont., Wednesday, July 11, 2018. Browning is the heart of the Blackfeet Nation, a distinctly Western town with calf-roping competitions and the occasional horseback rider ambling down the street _ and a hardscrabble reality. Nearly 40 percent of the residents live in poverty. The down-and-out loiter on corners. Shuttered homes with Meth Unit scrawled on wooden boards convey the damage caused by drugs.
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A woman performs a traditional Native American dance during the North American Indian Days celebration on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Mont., Friday, July 13, 2018. North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says Native American women are often subject to high rates of violence. "It becomes a population that you can prey on because no one does anything about it. Because there's no deterrence because there's no enforcement and no prosecution," said Heitkamp, who has introduced a bill aimed at addressing this issue.
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Tyisha ArrowTop Knot, right, sprays her nieces and nephews with a garden hose while looking after them in the backyard of their home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Mont., Thursday, July 12, 2018. Weve always been a cautious family," she said of watching out for the children in light of recent disappearances of Native American women. "The world is just getting worse."
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Jenna Loring, left, the aunt of Ashley HeavyRunner Loring, cries with her cousin, Lissa Loring, during a traditional blanket dance before the crowd at the North American Indian Days celebration on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Mont., Saturday, July 14, 2018. The 'dance' was held to raise awareness and funds for Ashley's search. With just about 1,000 residents on the reservation, many folks are related and secrets have a way of spilling out. There's always somebody talking, says Lissa, and it seems like to us since she disappeared, everybody got quiet. I don't know if they're scared, but so are we. That's why we need people to speak up.
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Kenny Still Smoking stands over the tombstone of his 7-year-old daughter, Monica, who disappeared from her school in 1979 and was found frozen to death on a mountain, as he visits her grave on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Mont., Saturday, July 14, 2018. "I talk to her, let her know I'm doing OK, that I'm still kicking," he said. "I think about her all the time." No one was ever arrested in connection with her death.
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