Quotation

“I like my beer but always stayed away from drugs. I knew my daddy would shoot me.” === VERONA SITS IN the center of the state, in a desolate, sparsely populated flatland packed with piney woods. For its 5,000 inhabitants, a good job is driving a pulpwood truck, a bad one is sacking groceries. One in five has no job at all. It’s a depressing place, but then most of my stops are in towns that time has passed by. === “I read somewhere that maybe ten percent of all people locked up are innocent. You believe that?” “Ten percent might be on the high side, but there are thousands of innocent people in prison.” “I’m not sure I believe that.” “Most white folks don’t, but go to the black community and you’ll find plenty of believers.”