I am all right. Or am I?

More Than Our Crimes
5 min readApr 1, 2020

I feel like a war vet about to be redeployed after acclimating to civilian life.

I was sentenced to 30 years to life as a 16-year-old child. And after a few days of being locked up, I was all right.

When I was sent thousands of miles away from my family in DC to a federal prison in thousands of miles away because the district doesn’t have its own prison, and thus they couldn’t visit, I was all

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More Than Our Crimes

Rob Barton has been incarcerated for 26 years. Pam Bailey is his collaborator/editor. Learn more at MoreThanOurCrimes.org