Editing Quitman County, Mississippi (section)

==Government and infrastructure==
The [[Mississippi Department of Corrections]] (MDOC) operates the Quitman County Community Work Center (CWC) in an area near Lambert.<ref>"[http://www.mdoc.state.ms.us/community_work_centers%20list.htm COMMUNITY WORK CENTERS] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815031518/http://www.mdoc.state.ms.us/community_work_centers%20list.htm |date=2010-08-15 }}", [[Mississippi Department of Corrections]]; retrieved September 23, 2010.</ref> In addition MDOC operates the [[Mississippi State Penitentiary]] (Parchman) in an [[unincorporated area]] in [[Sunflower County, Mississippi|Sunflower County]], in the area. Camp B, an inmate housing unit, was a satellite complex located away from the main Parchman prison property in [[unincorporated area|unincorporated]] Quitman County,<ref>"[http://sp.gomdot.com/Intermodal%20Planning/planning/Maps/County%20Highway%20Maps/Quitman.pdf Quitman County General Highway Map]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}", [[Mississippi Department of Transportation]]; retrieved September 20, 2010.</ref> near [[Lambert, Mississippi|Lambert]].<ref name=ferris>{{cite book|title=Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues|publisher=[[University of North Carolina Press]]|author=William Ferris|year=2009 |isbn=978-0-8078-3325-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/givemypoorhearte00ferr}}[https://archive.org/details/givemypoorhearte00ferr/page/77 <!-- quote=Parchman Lambert. -->]; accessed November 17, 2014.</ref> Camp B was one of Parchman's largest African-American housing units.<ref name=ferris/> Camp B's buildings have been demolished.<ref>[http://www.oxfordamerican.org/interviews/2009/dec/07/featured-writer-month "FEATURED WRITER OF THE MONTH Interview with: WILLIAM FERRIS"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613005124/http://www.oxfordamerican.org/interviews/2009/dec/07/featured-writer-month |date=June 13, 2010 }}, ''[[Oxford American]]'', December 7, 2009; retrieved September 21, 2010. "While many of the communities in which I worked have changed dramatically—Parchman's Camp B buildings in Lambert, Mississippi, have been leveled to the ground,[...]"</ref>  The Mississippi Code (§ 47-5-131) gives Quitman County the right to "not over twenty (20) offenders from the Parchman facility for five (5) workdays of each week for the purpose of working the roads of Quitman County", and goes on to state that the "board of supervisors of Quitman County shall lay out and designate roads to be worked by the offenders, and the board of supervisors shall furnish transportation to and from the Parchman facility for offenders."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/2010/title-47/5/47-5-131|title=2010 Mississippi Code TITLE 47 Ch. 5 §47-5-131 - Offenders to work certain roads; Quitman County|access-date=August 6, 2011}}</ref>

Quitman County has a high African American population and is also heavily Democratic. It has not supported a Republican presidential candidate since 1972, although [[Ronald Reagan]] came within 4 points of winning the county in 1984.

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