Lyle C May is an Ohio University alum, member of the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society, and currently finishing his bachelors in specialized studies degree program in Criminal Justice Administration.

Lyle's latest work

Witness

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.

This amazing book was featured in the Innocence Project's list of the 11 best books of 2023!

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Lyle's Audio Newsletter Series

For the sixth audio newsletter, Lyle discusses the significance of having graduated in May while incarcerated and the difficulties of pursuing higher education within a holding facility

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Is sentencing your neighbors to death ‘the will of the people’?

Read Lyle's newest article from Prism about 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.

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The Transformative Journey of Higher Education in Prison

This volume follows Lyle C. May's revolutionary journey from deficient early education to his incarceration on North Carolina’s death row, where he was given the opportunity to pursue higher education.

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Listen to Lyle's new Audio Newsletter Series below:

Audio Newsletter #6

For the sixth audio newsletter, Lyle discusses the significance of having graduated in May while incarcerated and the difficulties of pursuing higher education within a holding facility.

Newsletter #6

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Lyle C. May 0580028
Central Prison
1300 Western Blvd.
Raleigh, NC. 27606.