Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State by May, Lyle C.

Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781642599718)

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Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State by May, Lyle C.

Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State

$19.95
Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State by May, Lyle C.

Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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A first-hand account of the death penalty's wholly destructive nature.

In Witness, Lyle C. May offers a scathing critique of shifts in sentencing laws, prison policies that ensure recidivism, and classic "tough on crime" views that don't make society safer or prevent crime. These insightful and analytical essays explore capital punishment, life imprisonment, prison education, prison journalism, as well as what activism from inside looks like on the road toward abolishing the carceral state.

No outside journalist can adequately report what happens inside death row or what it is like to live through thirty-three executions of people you know. May's grounded writings in Witness challenge the myths, misconceptions, and misinformation about the criminal legal system and death in prison, guiding readers on a journey through North Carolina's congregate death row, where the author has spent over twenty years of his life.

With a foreword by activist, lawyer, and professor Danielle Purifoy, and drawing on the work of Angela Y. Davis, Mariame Kaba, and other abolitionist scholars, Witness shows there is more to life under the sentence of death than what is portrayed in crime dramas or mass media. Lyle C. May's life, journalism, and activism are a guidebook to abolitionism in practice.


Author: Lyle C. May
ISBN-10: 1642599719
ISBN-13: 9781642599718
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2024
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d
By Lyle C. May
By Lyle C. May
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Lyle C. May is a prison journalist, abolitionist, and Ohio University Alum currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in sociology, with a criminology major. He is a member of the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society and the Author's Guild. Lyle's writings have appeared in Scalawag Magazine, Perspectives on Politics, The Intercept, America Magazine, Inside Higher Ed, and elsewhere. Lyle is also a coauthor of Inside: Voices from Death Row (Scuppernong Editions, 2022) and contributor to Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America's Death Row (Duke University Press, 2021). He routinely lectures to high school and university students, church groups, and community organizations on the politics, policies, and experiences of mass incarceration. As he pursues every legal avenue to overturn his wrongful conviction and death sentence, Lyle advocates for greater access to higher education in prison.

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