Greetings!
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There have been questions about how to get on the GTL Getting Out app to message me directly. While sending messages through my email address is okay when the messaging app isn't working, or you prefer the familiarity of email over dealing with a prison messaging app, setting up a GTL Getting Out account is easy. Just follow these steps:
1. Go to any app store such as Google Play or the Apple store and down load: GettingOut Visits
2. Set up an account by providing your personal information, an email address, and create a password.
3. Log into your GettingOut account.
4. After creating an account and logging in you will have to put funds on your account to send a message or pictures. Click on "deposit"
5. Scroll down past "contacts" and click on "Make a Deposit"
6. Choose a state - North Carolina - and facility - Central Prison
7. Two options appear:
A) Inmate Account ←this puts $ on my account
B) Friends + Family ← this puts $ on your account
8. It's self explanatory from here. Select amount and put in you credit card information.
9. If for some reason you are having trouble or get locked out of your account, create a new one by first deleting the app. You may have to use another email account and name. As long as you provide a name and email account and other information requested by the app it should work. If you are still having trouble, send an email to the website requesting help.
Listen to Lyle's new Audio Newsletter Series below:
Audio Newsletter #5
For the fifth audio newsletter, Lyle discusses his future writing projects, from covering the politics of the criminal legal system, the impact of bad public policy on the incarcerated, carceral imperialism, Project 2025, and more.
"Witness: An Insider's View of the Carceral State:" Book Talk with Author Lyle C. May
Lyle May has spent over twenty years residing on death row in North Carolina. In the release of his book by Haymarket Books, he tells his story, offering a scathing critique of the carceral system through an abolitionist lens. In this talk which was coordinated with Dr. Maha Hilal's organization, Muslim Counterpublics Lab, and NLG + NLG chapter/committees, Lyle calls in from death row in fifteen minute increments, recounting his journey and discussing his important book which Mariame Kaba called “essential reading.”
The psychological torment and unconstitutionality of the state’s intent to kill
The threat of a death sentence creates a crucible of dehumanization that no one should have to experience and no one has the right to inflict. Read Lyle's newest article from Prism.
Photo by Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
One of dozens of drawings by Guantánamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah depicts the torture he and other detainees suffered at the hands of U.S. interrogators. (Image: Abu Zubaydah)
Two Sides of the Same Coin: the Carceral State from Guantánamo Bay to Death Row
Read Lyle's latest article about how after September 11, 2001, the federal government saw an opportunity to legalize torture in a way that targeted another BIPOC community, and legitimized what it already does to its own citizens.
Abolishing the Carceral State: From Death Row to Guantanamo Bay and Everything in Between
Lyle participated on a panel discussion featuring firsthand perspectives and an inside look on what it means to abolish the carceral state from those directly impacted by this system. Watch a recording of the panel here!
Want to send legal material, books, or
other publications to Lyle?
Use this address to mail Lyle:
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Lyle C. May 0580028
Central Prison
1300 Western Blvd.
Raleigh, NC. 27606.