Tag: OK
the state of Mississippi and issues of access
11th November
1.5 hours east of Jackson, Walnut Grove is a town in a town defined by a triangular strip. I stop into the drugstore to get some gum and take a leak, the pharmacist says, “we don’t have any sugarless gum and you can use the bathroom at the doctor’s office next door…they don’t mind.” It is a very small town. The only industry here besides the prison is a Tyson chick breeding plant. Walnut Grove facility is for juveniles sentenced as adults. There are 1,225 youths aged anywhere between 14 and 22.