by Pam Bailey | Feb 18, 2025
I woke up this morning and immediately dashed to my mother’s room and jumped into bed with her. It’s been 29 years, six months and five days since I’ve been home. When I was arrested, I was only 16. And through all those years behind the wall, one of my best memories...
by Pam Bailey | Jan 24, 2025
Freedom…the thing I’ve yearned for…prayed for…and that has consumed my being for the past 30-something years of incarceration…was briefly within my grasp. No longer was it just a yearning – an elusive prayer. Rather than a faint hope, it was so close, so possible it...
by Pam Bailey | Jul 1, 2024
“The most revolutionary act Black men can make is to deal psychoanalytically with their childhoods.” Scholar/writer, Bell Hooks I have this recurring fantasy in which I am happily married to my teenage love, a brilliant, funny and gorgeous African American...
by Pam Bailey | May 12, 2024
Editor’s note: When More Than Our Crimes wanted to try to motivate our network members from Washington, DC, to vote despite their disengagement from the political system, we turned to Da’Quan Nelson. A talented “urban writer,” he knows how to...
by Pam Bailey | May 9, 2024
When I first entered jail, I was painfully aware of my gayness. I was told this environment operated 20 to 30 years in the past – not a safe place for a Black gay male. Of course, this fear was not exactly new. Everyone in the LGBTQ+ community, out or not, lives...
