| 词条 | Kenneth E. Hartman |
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Kenneth E. Hartman (born December 28, 1960) is an American writer and prison activist. A convicted murderer, he is serving life in prison in California. When he was 19 years old, he murdered a homeless man after an alcohol and drug binge. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. While in prison, he has married and has fathered a daughter.[1] He was one of the proponents of the "Honor Yard" in California State Prison in Lancaster; the program involves "600 inmates who have promised to avoid drugs, gang activity and violence against each other or prison staff and who live in a section of the prison separated from the general inmates" where they may take training and classes.[1] Hartman wrote about his experiences in prison and this program in his essay "A Prisoners' Purpose", which won one of the John Templeton Foundation's 2004 Power of Purpose awards.[2] In a 2009 New York Times editorial, he described the effects of the recession on the prison system.[3] He has also written against the penalty of life imprisonment without parole, calling it "the other death penalty".[4] In a December 2014 feature for Harper's magazine, he described three decades of prison Christmases to illustrate the progressive attempts to dehumanize prisoners in the United States.[5] His 2009 memoir Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars ({{ISBN|0692358331}}) won the 2010 Eric Hoffer Award for memoir.[6] References1. ^1 {{cite news|title=Better Life Behind Bars; Inmate Working Against Chaos|author=Greg Botonis|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/BETTER+LIFE+BEHIND+BARS+INMATE+WORKING+AGAINST+CHAOS.%28News%29-a0130673029|newspaper=Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)|date=March 21, 2005}} 2. ^{{cite book|title=The Power of Purpose Awards 2004|author=John Templeton Foundation|publisher=Cosimo Inc|year=2005|isbn=1-59605-121-3}} 3. ^{{cite news|title=The Recession Behind Bars|date=5 September 2009|author=Kenneth E. Hartman|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/opinion/06hartman.html|newspaper=The New York Times}} 4. ^Voices from Solitary: Kenneth E. Hartman on “The Other Death Penalty”, 19 May 2010 5. ^"Christmas in Prison: Greeting the holidays in an age of mass incarceration" in Harper's magazine, December 2014 issue 6. ^Hoffer Award Memoir winner 2010 External links
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