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Leroy E. Mann

Leroy E. Mann is a resident of death row in Raleigh’s Central Prison, where he is a witness to the injustice of capital punishment. He is the author of a memoir and an unpublished novel titled Concrete Seeds, and he has blogged at Word to the Masses for more than six years.

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Like father, like son: The intergenerational trauma of incarceration

by Leroy E. Mann January 16, 2018November 13, 2023

Decades before a white 19 year-old was charged with the death of a police officer, his father was also imprisoned for killing a cop. Incarcerated writer Leroy Mann interviews Darrell Maness about the intergenerational trauma of incarceration.

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A letter to President-Elect Trump

by Leroy E. Mann January 17, 2017October 1, 2020
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Two days before a scheduled execution

by Leroy E. Mann and Iris Gottlieb October 19, 2016June 23, 2021

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