After the break, a few shots I took of Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, home of Prentiss, and where the Cory Maye-Ron Jones raid took place.

Above is a shot of Mississippi 13. The official name of the road as it passes through J-D County is “Golden Pine Road.” But in recent years, it has become known to locals as “Dope Road,” due to the apparently thriving drug trade that uses the road as a thoroughfare. The DEA concluded a big investigation there in 2004, resulting in about a dozen indictments.

If Prentiss is a poor, depressed community, Jefferson Davis County is the same on both counts, only worse.

There was something very likable about the countryside, though. There’s some real pastoral beauty in places. There’s also some dispiriting, crushing poverty, like none I’ve ever seen.

In any case, here are a few photos I took while getting from here to there:

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