Bibles, Baby Remains, & Bullshit: Why Is Bexar County Talking to an Anti-Abortion Nonprofit CEO About an Inmate?

Who’s lying — Pam Allen or the jail? I filed more paperwork to find out.

Last month, I introduced you to Mallori Patrice Strait — an unhoused Black woman who suffered a stillbirth alone in a fast food restaurant bathroom. Instead of receiving care and compassion, she was arrested and booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center in Texas, and held for five months with no evidence of any wrong doing.

And I know this because I obtained Mallori’s records from the Medical Examiner’s Office. If you’d like to see more of what I uncovered, head to Miscarriage of Justice: "Possible stillbirth" classification. So why was Mallori Strait already convicted in headlines, and sign up to be a paid subscriber.

I chose Mallori’s case as the focus of my first Miscarriage of Justice installment because it laid bare the brutal intersection of racism, poverty, and reproductive criminalization. Also, because, like so many stories of incarcerated women, it was being quietly buried.

Almost immediately after Mallori was incarcerated, a familiar figure emerged — at least perhaps for those who live in San Antonio, Texas.

Pamela Allen, CEO of Eagle’s Flight, at the funeral she hosted of an infant born to Nidia Yolibeth Alvarado — a 25-year-old undocumented Honduran mother of two, now serving life in prison for the infant’s death. Alvarado was criminalized for a tragedy that equitable healthcare could have prevented. Allen, as usual, showed up for the spiritual kabuki theater and self-serving grief performance — not the fight for pregnancy and immigrant justice.

Pamela Allen, founder of Eagle’s Flight Advocacy & Outreach, has aligned herself with Safe Haven Baby Boxes, a project that turns child abandonment into public spectacle and frames surrender as a “moral” alternative to abortion, no matter the cost to the birth mother.

Allen frequently inserts herself into these tragedies — not as an advocate for the women, but as a self-appointed steward of their babies or fetal remains. And according to her own words (more on that in the paid section!), she’s built close relationships with Texas jails, medical examiners, and sheriff’s departments to do it.

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BTW, If you’d like to know why “baby boxes” are not the fix the Christofascists claim it is, you can check out my video here:

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Allen often speaks as though she’s part of the investigation, even when she isn’t. She seems to intervene early, is able to freely access incarcerated women, and unfortunately tends to shape the public narrative under the banner of “Christian charity.”

Her organization buries abandoned infants, yes — but what it buries even better are the power dynamics at play.

When I learned Allen had been publicly commenting on Mallori’s case, I filed a public records request with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO), and explained to my subscribers that I hoped they would shed light on:

“Whether call logs exist confirming communication between Pamela Allen and Mallori,
whether Mallori had legal representation present during any of these exchanges, and
whether any of Pamela Allen’s claims can be corroborated — or contradicted — by official records.”

Well, I finally heard back And what they told me flat-out contradicts 1. The law on public information records and 2. What Allen claimed in her email. Someone’s lying. And I want to know who.

Colleen Luckett — independent journalist, unapologetic feminist, and veteran abortion rights advocate — reports on the war against reproductive justice in the United States, where religion, patriarchy, and profit form an UNholy trinity. Featuring Miscarriage of Justice, a series that brings you receipts on the pervasive corruption and weaponized stigma behind pregnancy criminalization.