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Title
5 positive steps to reform prisons
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2013-12-09
Pages
2 pages
State
California
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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 broken, and we have begun the process of rethinking the idea of what incarceration means, should mean, and will mean in the future. Punishment for the sake of inflicting pain has lost its hold on the public's imagination. And not a moment too soon, because the damage done is extensive. ...
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apw:12344714
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2016-10-21T21:08:46.17Z
Title
8 accurate books to read about life in prison
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2010-11-30
Pages
10 pages
State
California
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Kenneth Hartman Prison Writer November 30, 2010 8 Accurate Books To Read About Life In Prison (PHOTOS) I can't count the number of times I've been asked what books and movies I'd recommend to get a better understanding of prison. It's the very nature and design of this world, with all the barriers both real and metaphorical, that makes getting a clear understanding difficult to gain. Most folk's sense of this reality is formed in the dark of a movie theater or in the ...
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apw:12344782
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2016-10-21T22:55:08.032Z
Title
A prisoner's purpose
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Pages
5 pages
State
California
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A Prisoner's Purpose By Kenneth Hartman Tear gas is more a presence then a smell. It clings to the back of your throat, a chemically induced feather that provokes a coughing fit after each attempt at a breath. It is one of the "less lethal" force options deployed in prison to quell a riot. On one windy, Southern California day, l could see that the last few wisps of tear gas blowing off the yard as the guards finally came back through the gates, the violence essentially over, t...
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apw:12344873
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T01:48:43.738Z
Title
A short commentary on religion (or life is full of wonderment)
Author
Dugger, Philip
Date
2013-11-10
Pages
2 pages
State
California
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A Short Commentary on Religion (or Life Is Full of Wonderment) There is a smart, shrewd business consultant by the name of Clay Christiansen who helps companies stay competitive in our wonderfully competitive society. When it comes to his religion, he is convinced, after much heartfelt & prayerful seeking, that Mormonism, which happens to be the religion he was raised in, is the One True Faith. It is his assertion that modern Christianity broke from its genuine roots in the 3rd & 4th ...
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apw:12342826
Date Uploaded
2016-10-17T10:52:59.602Z
Title
America the punisher, America the punished
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Pages
1 page
State
California
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America the Punisher, America the Punished By Kenneth Edward Hartman So. where do we go from here? Our prisons are filled to capacity and the building sites for more are springing up like weeds of despair all over. The local news sounds more and more like a crime report, a scorecard of the dead, the wounded and the imprisoned. Scenes of grieving families, weeping mothers with clinging children, abound on the 10 o'clock news while the newsreader intones the stats of the day's killing...
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apw:12344900
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2016-10-22T11:10:09.322Z
Title
Americans with disabilities act. Inmate patient brain injuries
Author
Jester, Daniel
Date
2016-02-15
Date
2016-02-15, 2016-02-15
Pages
31 pages
State
California
Text (TR_WF)
Americans with Disabilities Act Inmate Patient Brain Injuries Introduction: The topic of this essay deals with managing IP cognitive impairments or distortions created by cumulative ADA brain injuries experienced with multiple sclerosis (MS). These defects in conjunction with associated stress hormone biochemical imbalance create emotional and mental health care disorders requiring medication intervention and treatment. IP provides detail firsthand insight in dealing with the intense sufferin...
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apw:12342200
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2016-06-19T22:05:08.309Z
Title
Are they really opposed to the death penalty?
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2010-11-18
Pages
2 pages
State
California
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November 18, 2010 Out of Sight, Out of Mind Are They Really Opposed to the Death Penalty? By Kenneth E. Hartman They stand outside in the night holding candles, singing songs of protest, holding up photos of condemned men, and decrying the brutality of state-sanctioned execution. The next day, at the inevitable press conference, after the ritualized lamentations for the now deceased prisoner, they offer up life without the possibility of parole sentences as the humane alternative to lethal in...
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apw:12344795
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T22:55:09.518Z
Title
Bad things happen in the dark
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2012-07-03
Pages
2 pages
State
California
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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 Bill 1270, which will restore full media access to the prisons. The California Legislature should pass Assembly Bill 1270, which will restore full media access to the prisons, and Governor Brown should sign it into law. It's past time to admit that what goes on inside these publicly owned places ...
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apw:12344742
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2016-10-21T21:10:43.821Z
Title
But prison is so us
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2013-05-15
Pages
4 pages
State
California
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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 But Prison is So Us by KENNETH E. HARTMAN Guantanamo Bay’s_back in the news. President Obama described it as “not sustainable” in a news conference on April 30th at the White House. Pundits on both sides of the power elite dynamic launched...
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apw:12344724
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T21:09:00.436Z
Title
Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
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 land of mass incarceration, the perpetual prisoner machine, the prison-industrial complex, from where orange is not now, nor has it ever been, the new black. The land from which the lockdown sprang, where stop and frisk has always been legal, where racial profiling is off...
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apw:12344717
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T21:08:59.215Z
Title
Facebook caves to the prison-industrial complex
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2011-08-19
Pages
6 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Facebook caves to the prison-industrial complex August 19, 2011 by Kenneth E. Hartman In a decision setting back prisoners' rights and helping to advance the interests of prison bureaucrats and their guard union allies, Facebook announced plans to work with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to shut down pages set up for prisoners. Spokespersons for the department claimed that prisoners were using their Facebook pages to "stalk victims" and "conduc...
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apw:12344761
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T22:54:54.29Z
Title
Harder time
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Pages
4 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Editor's note: Last summer Kenneth E. Hartman, an inmate serving a life sentence for murder without the possibility of parole at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County, sent us an essay on California's prison system - a system that he believes is on the verge of a meltdown. Since then, the credibility of Mr. Hartman's warnings have only been enhanced by the dramatic legislative hearings held in Sacramento on the alleged corruption and cover-ups going on behind prison w...
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apw:12344888
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T01:48:51.199Z
Title
Inmates could help resolve prison debacle
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Inmates could help resolve prison debacle By Kenneth E. Hartman, C-19449 With all of California's crises crowding the headlines, it's easy to forget the multi-billion dollar fiasco that is the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). The stark truths of this state's failed prison policies include: the worst return-to-prison rate in the country; federal courts demanding constitutionally adequate (read, very expensive) health care; dangerous overcrowding and understaf...
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apw:12344850
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T01:48:36.846Z
Title
It's time to change the prisons
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2010-05-16
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
May 16, 2010 It's Time To Change The Prisons By Kenneth E. Hartman There comes a point in every failed social experiment when nothing more can be accomplished. The sad truths of the nation's vast, extraordinarily expensive and spectacularly ineffective prison systems must be acknowledged. It's time to change the prisons. For the past quarter of a century, all 50 states and the federal government have wholly adopted the "tough on prisoners" model. No one can argue that...
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apw:12344808
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T22:55:13.841Z
Title
Joan Petersilia provides a remarkably comprehensive overview
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2011
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
Joan Petersilia provides a remarkably comprehensive overview of the United States’ unmanageable and unaffordable prison system. While she offers useful advice on making reforms to tame the “prison-industrial complex,” I am compelled to point out a profound omission in her account. The prison system is a gigantic jobs engine that employs upward of 750,000 men and women in well-paying, unionized positions. A prison is one of the last places a person with a high school diploma can get a job that...
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apw:12344771
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T22:55:06.557Z
Title
Killing time
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
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 costs taxpayers billions annually. The public has every right to know about the operations and condi- tions of our prisons. However, California regulations make interviewing one of the state's 166,000 inmates nearly impossible. Face-to-face interviews between journalist a...
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apw:12344882
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T01:48:48.142Z
Title
Last days on the other side of the fences
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
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 of the Fences By Kenneth E. Hartman I woke up in the joint again this morning. Ten thousand seven hundred and ninety-one days and counting. Through no one's fault but my own, I exist as a number, a body filling a carefully delineated space, a breathing statistic. Looking out across the horizon of time at ...
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apw:12344774
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T22:55:07.057Z
Title
Letter from an old prisoner
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2014-01-20
Pages
3 pages
State
California
Text (O)
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 myself, back 34 years ago, right after I was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. I'm sure it would start with an encouragement to focus on the possibilities of my life, even a life inside. Perhaps then, the life I traveled might have been a little less painful,...
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apw:12344710
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T21:08:45.322Z
Title
Life without parole a convicted murderer describes the protracted death of a life sentence
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Pages
4 pages
State
California
Text (O)
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 a marauder, a predator who inhabited the nightmarish landscape of urban America. I stole, I lied, I cheated. I was extraordinarily, preternaturally violent. I was, by the governments euphemism, state-raised. In my world, that title is one of the campaign ribbons a man wears; surviving the upbringin...
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apw:12344893
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T11:09:57.824Z
Title
Murderer is filled with remorse for sin
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
1993
Pages
1 page
State
California
Text (O)
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 Allen Fellowes in a senseless act of brutality on the grounds at Ramona Park in Long Beach. It had been a long night of drinking and drug use and fighting in Santa Ana when I happened upon him, lying on a bench at the park. I harassed him, and after a few heated words, I struck him. He...
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apw:12344906
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T11:10:11.001Z
Title
Paying with time
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Pages
5 pages
State
California
Text (O)
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 incarceration." But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. [1] Time is the currency of punishment in America; it is both how crime's debt is paid and the standard against which justice is measured. Time is, n...
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apw:12344751
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T21:10:47.017Z
Title
Personal computers needed by inmates 24/7
Author
Jester, Daniel
Date
2014-03-22
Pages
9 pages
State
California
Text (TR_WF)
Daniel Jester California Personal Computers Needed by Inmates 24/7 Dear CALVET Veterans Caregiver Partners, Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to tell you a little about our growing incarcerated Veterans Helping Veterans (VHV) group at California Medical Facility (CMF) Vacaville, California. Today, California Departments of Corrections and Rehabilitations (CDCR) costs are rising way over $100 grand for each incarcerated veteran annually. And with the additional reality of a growing 70%...
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apw:12342859
Date Uploaded
2016-10-17T11:09:20.212Z
Title
Pope's message on prison goes unheeded
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Date
2004-08-27
Pages
2 pages
State
California
Text (O)
August 27, 2004 Pope's message on prison goes unheeded By Kenneth E. Hartman It was with great hope that thousands of Catholic prisoners and I read Pope John Paul II's "Message for the Jubilee in Prisons" in 2000. The closing words filled us with a sense of community with the rest of the church: "Assuring the men and women who are in prison throughout the world that I am close to them in spirit, I embrace them all as brothers and sisters in the human family." Pow...
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apw:12344885
Date Uploaded
2016-10-22T01:48:49.922Z
Title
Prisons, change, and fighting giants
Author
Hartman, Kenneth
Pages
5 pages
State
California
Text (O)
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 systems (local, state, federal, public, private, on-the-map, off-the-map) have eaten a great yawning hole in the government's budget, a hole so big it's swallowing up schools and home health care, hospitals and aid to poor families. In fact, the numbers are upwards of 100 bil...
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apw:12344745
Date Uploaded
2016-10-21T21:10:45.752Z

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