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The other death penalty
The Other Death Penalty * Kenneth E. Hartman More than 29 years ago I killed Thomas F. in a drunken, drugged-up fistfight. I was sentenced to death. Not the more controversial death penalty, the one...
The absent voice of prisoners
Kenneth E. Hartman The Absent Voice of Prisoners It’s a heady time in the world of prisons. The “R” word is being uttered in public again, and more than a few people have come to...
Killing time
PRISON POLITICS: Death Measures A California prisoner reveals his own Abu Ghraib and a sentence worse than death. By Kenneth Edward Hartman, C-I9449 California's prison system is one of the largest in the world and...
Life without parole a convicted murderer describes the protracted death of a life sentence
Life Without Parole A convicted murderer describes the protracted death of a life sentence When I was 19, I killed a man in a drunken, drugged-up fistfight. For several years before that I had been...
The honor program
The Honor Program By Kenneth E. Hartman Several years ago, at the beginning of the worst series of riots and violence in the history of the California prison system, I wrote a proposal for what...
Visiting day
Family Matters Visiting Day by Kenneth Edward Hartman California Correctional Institution, Tehachapi, CA It seems as if time distends while you're waiting for something you want. On a Saturday morning while I am awaiting a...
Murderer is filled with remorse for sin
Long Beach Press-Telegram 1993 Murderer is filled with remorse for sin Inmate mourns man killed 13 years ago By Kenneth Edward Hartman Who mourns Thomas Allen Fellowes? I do. Thirteen years ago, I killed Thomas...
Searching for the beautiful prison
SEARCHING FOR THE BEAUTIFUL PRISON Kenneth E. Hartman ABSTRACT This essay draws from the personal experience of a man held in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for over 30 years. The author attempts...
The trouble with prison reformers
KENNETH E. HARTMAN, California THE TROUBLE WITH PRISON REFORMERS What appears to be virtually incomprehensible to non-prisoners, even those with the best of conscious intentions, is that our world is truly our world. it is...
Prisons, change, and fighting giants
PRISONS, CHANGE, AND FIGHTING GIANTS Kenneth Hartman It's a funny thing what turns up in the dregs during a financial crisis. For one thing, people all across this country found out that the various prison...
Last days on the other side of the fences
At 19 he beat a man to death and was sentenced to life without parole. Decades later his only freedom lies in conjuring the past and re-creating his present. Last Days on the Other Side...
What is and what should be
KENNETH E. HARTMAN WHAT IS AND WHAT SHOULD BE THE TENSION cuts through your clothes and into your skin like a jagged shank. Another alarm goes off, its pitched wailing, yelling out: there’s trouble over...
Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem
Kenneth E. Hartman Ex Umbris Et Imaginibus In Veritatem (From Shadows and Symbols Into the Truth) Epitaph of John Henry Cardinal Newman Welcome to this first chronicle from inside one of Mother California's prisons. The...
The chow hall in tough times
The Chow Hall in Tough Times (by Kenneth Hartman) It’s a real honour to introduce this post. Serving life in California, Kenneth Hartman is one of the best prison writers I've ever come across. I...
Unnatural lockdowns
Unnatural Lockdowns Essay by Kenneth E. Hartman Like everything else of consequence, green consciousness came late to the prison systems of this country. In fact, it's still a work in progress, this new outlook. It...
Letter from an old prisoner
Letter From an Old Prisoner January 20, 2014 By Kenneth Hartman Don't surrender to the darkness of these places. Don't surrender to the darkness of any place. I've often wondered what I would say to...
5 positive steps to reform prisons
5 Positive Steps to Reform Prisons December 9, 2013 Renowned prison reform activist Ken Hartman gives his insights into how we can reform our broken system. We already know the prisons in this country are...
Why California must abandon eternal punishment
Why California Must Abandon Eternal Punishment November 2,2013 by Kenneth Hartman Contrary to the angry rhetoric of the past generation, it isn't reasonable to hold tens of thousands of men and women in prison for...
What we learned from S.A.F.E. California
7/18/13 A ’ What We Learned From S.A.F.E. California | Campaign to End the Death Penalty share By: Kenneth Hartman In November2012, California voters defeated a ballotmeasure that would have abolished the death penalty. Leading...
But prison is so us
5'/15/13 www.counterpunch.org/2013/O5/15/but-prison-is-so-us/print Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names » But Prison is So Us » Print counter This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. MAY 15, 2013 From Guantanamo to Pelican Bay...
The ongoing struggle for prison reform
7/'23/1 2 Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names » The Ongoing Struggle for Prison Reform » Print cnuntemiic This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. WEEKEND EDITION JULY 20-22, 2012 Toward a...
Prop 34: truth, indeed, but not the whole truth
July 20, 2012 Prop 34: Truth, Indeed, But Not The Whole Truth By Kenneth E. Hartman Rebuttal to Death Penalty Focus' piece on life without parole as a reasonable alternative to the traditional execution....
Why I'd vote for the SAFE California act
July 10, 2012 Why I'd Vote for the SAFE California Act By Kenneth E. Hartman Kenneth E. Hartman, who has served over 32 continuous years in the California prison system on a life without parole...
Bad things happen in the dark
July 3, 2012 Bad Things Happen in the Dark By Kenneth E. Hartman Advocacy piece by Kenneth E. Hartman, who has served 32 continuous years in prison on a life without parole sentence, on Assembly...
Paying with time
Paying with Time By Kenneth E. Hartman "The prison-industrial complex has subverted and subsumed the practice of punishment, converting it into a malodorous fodder, a foul commodity to support the vast, multi-layered infrastructure of mass...Loading...
