by Pam Bailey | May 23, 2023
Angelo Daniels is one of approximately 600 D.C. residents who are eligible to petition for immediate release despite their indeterminate sentences, thanks to the District’s Second Look Amendment Act. His story portrays in very human terms both how individuals find...
by Pam Bailey | Feb 12, 2023
I am a 32-year-old Black man. Ten years ago, the car I was riding in hit a police officer on his scooter, breaking his leg. I’ve been in prison ever since, and I need your help to reunite with my son, my little “Fattman.” I was raised in a single-parent household in...
by Pam Bailey | Dec 18, 2022
During my son’s first birthday celebration, I was seated in a loathsome, cramped and filthy holding cell in the D.C. Superior Court, on trial to fight charges of armed kidnapping and first-degree murder of a street associate. I can vaguely recall hearing the lead...
by Pam Bailey | Oct 30, 2022
Note from Pam Bailey, co-founder of More Than Our Crimes: One day, I asked Gezo what his passion is, and this was his response: Passion? I guess that could be what I mostly muse about. I daydream mostly about my manumission. I dream of being with my family. I remember...
by Pam Bailey | Oct 22, 2022
*** I grew up in Ward 8 (Barry Farms), DC; lived there all of my life – with the exception of 1998, when my mother put a down payment on a house in Fairfax, VA, and I stayed there for a few months. She told me she wanted a change for me and my brothers. I have five...
