"Trapped in Dillon" Dillon County suffers from a broken-down education system, soaring unemployment, low-paying jobs and one of the worst high school graduation rates in the state. The Wright-McLeod children have a father in prison and a mother who struggles to take care of her six children. In the midst of it all, kids are kids. They play, they laugh, they love each other and they dream. The first in her family to graduate high school, Tia McLeod, second from left, gets her hair done by neighbor Onda Johnson, who dropped out of Dillon High School. Tia's sister, Precious Wright, the youngest of the siblings, is lost in thought. Their mother, Sharon Wright, jokes with her uncle, Jerry McLeod. Tia graduated from Dillon High in May 2007, joined the Army and is scheduled to go to Afghanistan in 2008. The military was her ticket out of Dillon.
