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==Economy== [[File:Abandoned bank in Lambert, Mississippi.jpg|thumb|Abandoned Bank of Lambert]] 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 on 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 [[Quitman County, Mississippi|Quitman County]],<ref>"[http://sp.gomdot.com/Intermodal%20Planning/planning/Maps/County%20Highway%20Maps/Quitman.pdf Quitman County General Highway Map]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}." [[Mississippi Department of Transportation]]. Retrieved on September 20, 2010.</ref> near Lambert.<ref>"[http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/poorheartease/theauthor.html The Author – Give My Poor Heart Ease]" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022074750/http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/poorheartease/theauthor.html |date=October 22, 2009 }}. [[University of North Carolina Press]]. Retrieved on September 20, 2010.</ref> Camp B was one of Parchman's largest African-American housing units.<ref name="FerrisParchman77">Ferris, William R. ''Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues''. [[UNC Press Books]], 2009. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SORWYAt1D68C&dq=Parchman+Lambert&pg=PA77 77]. Retrieved on September 20, 2010. {{ISBN|0-8078-3325-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8078-3325-4}}.</ref> 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://oxfordamerican.org/interviews/2009/dec/07/featured-writer-month/ |date=2010-06-13 }}." ''[[Oxford American]]''. December 7, 2009. Retrieved on 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>
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