Where race, poverty, and the opportunity gap meet in rural America
Story Date: 9/5/2017

 

Source: ROLL CALL, 9/1/17

There are 27 prisons within a 100-mile radius of Bertie County, North Carolina. Its last major employer is the Perdue chicken processing plant. It is a place of dirt roads, muddy tracks, trailer homes, sweltering heat, rows of cotton, and very little opportunity for ambitious youngsters.

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