Letter From Death Row Archives – Scalawag

Southern Politics

Qualified Immunity: How 'ordinary police work' tramples civil rights

by Lyle C. May June 23, 2021October 18, 2021

Two innocent brothers spent 30 years in prison. The law protects the police who put them there.

North Carolina's Racial Justice Act can remove prisoners from death row. But is life without parole actual justice?

by Lyle C. May October 26, 2020

Perspectives on incarceration and abolition you should be listening to

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 21, 2020March 15, 2022

Southern Politics

Free the press in prisons, too

by Lyle C. May June 15, 2020September 16, 2020

Abolishing parole led to COVID-19 'tinderbox' in NC prisons

by Lyle C. May May 18, 2020October 1, 2020

Prison officials cut off higher education for people on North Carolina's Death Row

by Lyle C. May October 28, 2019October 1, 2020

Life without parole is 'silent execution'

by Lyle C. May December 31, 2018November 12, 2020

Like father, like son: The intergenerational trauma of incarceration

by Leroy E. Mann January 16, 2018June 23, 2021

Beyond the wall

by Lyle C. May July 3, 2017October 1, 2020

A letter to President-Elect Trump

by Leroy E. Mann January 17, 2017October 1, 2020

Why we must educate our prisoners

by Lyle C. May November 29, 2016October 1, 2020

Two days before a scheduled execution

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