Karen Russo
Field Producer
ABC News Nightline
New York, N.Y., USA
TOPIC: Produce a television piece focusing on the state of mental health care in Ethiopia and the novel approaches that doctors are taking to care for patients with mental illnesses.
Male inpatients in pajamas wander aimlessly across a football field-sized courtyard where patches of green grass grow despite the dusty red soil and merciless sun. Other patients sit and stare all day, some wearing chains around their ankles to prevent them from escaping.
Male inpatients in pajamas wander aimlessly across a football field-sized courtyard where patches of green grass grow despite the dusty red soil and merciless sun. Other patients sit and stare all day, some wearing chains around their ankles to prevent them from escaping.
Can downward dog transform murderers into model citizens? That's the philosophy behind a program in India's state of Madhya Pradesh where prisons offer special yoga classes to the incarcerated.
He types awkwardly, his fingers scrunched on the keyboard, back hunched over and elbows bent outward. I'm guessing he's rarely done it. "Never mind typing, I've never had to bathe myself," he says, turning his attention back to a gay men's Web site.
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