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    Summary of Life Sentence by Mark Bowden: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
    Summary of Life Sentence by Mark Bowden: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
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    Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight gang members in prison. He uses wiretaps, police interviews, undercover videos, text messages, social media posts, trial transcripts, and his own conversations with Tana's family and community to create the most in-depth account of an inner-city gang ever written. He positions Tana in the context of Baltimore and America, illuminating his path for what it really was: a life sentence.
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      The Game (or, The Greased Path)

      When Montana Barronette was a boy, his mother, Annette Burch, removed him and his baby sister from the apartment in Sandtown and moved them to the Poe Homes, a notorious West Baltimore housing project. The area over the bridge had been long defined by the brick towers of the Lexington Terrace housing projects, built in the 1950s to house those dislocated by Baltimore's modern downtown renewal. The removal of Montana and Booda must have seemed a blessing to Annette's mother, Delores, who had taken them into her Harlem Avenue apartment one by one, after raising her own brood of five. Annette was always nearby, adrift in the circle of neighborhood drug users, and eventually her fifth child, James, would come to live with Delores. The fathers of these children were truant, and the mother and grandmother were opposite extremes, Annette dissolute, Delores pious and stern.

      Terrell and Shanika Sivells, Montana Barronette, and Booda and then James Williams were reared on their grandmother's sometimes bitter forbearance. At home, Delores dragged them to worship, but work kept Delores away often, so they spent a lot of time in the streets with their mother, learning the ins and outs of the corner drug markets. One morning, not long after the move, the children woke up alone and Montana waited all day until nightfall, and when their mother failed to return, he flagged down a police car. This shows the tenor of his upbringing and his unafraidness of the police. Shanika grew up in terror of cops, and remembers a night when police crashed into their apartment, guns drawn, looking for Montana's father, Delroy.

      Annette was nabbed trying to climb out a back window and was taken away. Shanika blamed the raid for her nervous problems and nightmares, and Delores would shake and pray when she heard a siren.

      Montana, a seven-year-old abandoned in a strange place with his baby sister, sought out a cop after being abandoned at Poe Homes. In Sandtown, cops were seen less as protectors than as an occupying force, and the neighborhood had the highest incarceration rate in Baltimore and all of Maryland. Most in the community distrusted police and judges, a rational apprehension with deep historical roots. W. E. B. Du Bois had noted this more than a century earlier, observing oppressed Black communities in the rural South.

      When the real Negro criminal appeared, there was a curious effect on both sides the color-line: the Negroes refused to believe the evidence of white witnesses or the fairness of white juries, so that the greatest deterrent to crime, the public opinion of one's own social caste, was lost. This situation is bound to increase crime, and has increased it. Montana Malik Barronette was born in 1995 in the richest country in the world, but had a much smaller chance than most American children of reaching adulthood alive, avoiding prison, or enjoying even modest legitimate success. His immediate family had fallen into a condition of petty crime, and the community around him had few examples of legitimate success and many of failure. Statistics are not destiny, and there are many things that can and do help defeat those odds, such as good parenting, a strong family and community, good schooling, role models, opportunity, and, not the least, character.

      Most Black children, even those from Sandtown, do defeat those odds and survive their youth. Kurt Schmoke estimates that in every high school homeroom class in Baltimore, there is likely one child fully lost to street life. Montana had no advantages, living in a rundown old town house on Harlem Avenue and being exposed to lead paint. He was a fast learner and soon was selling drugs and committing bolder crimes. He was working for one of the local heroin dealers, Davon Robinson, selling a product labeled Get Right. The heroin was cut with white powders and sold in gelcaps.

      The corner men directed traffic, dealt with buyers, and took their money. The drugs were delivered by hitters from a hidden stash. Montana and his half brother Terrell started out as hitters and were soon running their own shop. They sold fentanyl, cocaine, marijuana, and Percocet, Xanax, and other pills. They were part of a strutting, fatalistic street subculture with its own hip style, language, and music.

      Disputes over status and turf were settled

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