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...with women of different ages playing the roles of mothers, daughters and aunts. "There's an older lady that lived in my room with me. She was just like my mother," says Susie Ruales, 27, who is serving 12 years for cocaine possession in the Federal Correctional Institution in Marianna...
Several HRE officials, including President Kristen S. Demong and attorney Marianna C. Pierce `78 yesterday declined comment on the decision...
Youths caught sampling the cocaine were roughed up. The punishment for stealing could be permanent: one Marianna boy returned with mangled fingers. To exact obedience, the brothers sometimes deliberately shorted the boys on the crack that was parceled out for them to sell. When the receipts came up short, the boys were forced to work off their shortages, which kept them in bondage for months at a time. "They ran everything on fear and intimidation," says Birchler...
...everyone stayed intimidated. In February tips from disaffected Marianna youths led to criminal indictments in Detroit against the four Chambers brothers, as well as 18 others, including many from Marianna...
...Today Marianna is a town traumatized by its past. Some of the young men who left as country bumpkins returned as hardened criminals. About half of those indicted are still at large, and people are terrified that the Chamberses will try to get even. There have been several fire bombings, including one directed at a woman who testified against a Chambers brother. Yet one fact about Marianna remains the same. Says Councilman Roy Lewellen: "I can't think of eight black teenagers who are employed...