by Pam Bailey | Feb 24, 2024
Let me introduce myself. I have several names: The name on my birth certificate is Damian Kareem Abdul Jabbar Cunningham Herndon. But by the time I started grade school, my mother had shortened it to Darnel Vincent Herndon Jr. (after my father). My nickname as a young...
by Pam Bailey | Dec 2, 2023
The late, legendary Hall of Famer Paul Robeson once said, “You can limit my mobility, but you can’t limit my mentality.” Leonard Bishop is a testament to this truth. Although his body is languishing for a third decade in the bowels of the American carceral...
by Pam Bailey | Nov 10, 2023
We can go through our whole life without knowing we were traumatized or how to speak up to get the help we need. Not knowing or understanding my trauma affected me in ways I’m only now starting to understand. I went from being on the honor roll and scoring...
by Pam Bailey | Jul 30, 2023
My name is Carlos Marcell Jackson. I was incarcerated when I was 21 years old for aiding and abetting a murder. I’m now 39; I’ve been in prison 18 years. A staff member in one of the prisons told me once that I could have done something with my life, and I often...
by Pam Bailey | Jul 23, 2023
I gave myself the name Emotional Poet because it reflects my prolific, God-given ability to articulate the unspoken words of my soul. Prior to my incarceration, I had no interest in poetry, perhaps because I didn’t really understand the concept or how it could factor...
