Kenneth E. Hartman

"making the world a better place remains my mission and focus"

I have served over 33 continuous years in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on a life without the possibility of parole (LWOP) sentence for killing a man in a drunken, drugged up fistfight when I was nineteen years old. I am the author of "Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars," a memoir of life in prison, published by Atlas & Co. (New York, 2009), and am an award winning writer and prison reform activist. I was instrumental in the founding of the Honor Program at the California State Prison-Los Angeles County in 2000, and am the founder and Executive Director of The Other Death Penalty Project, a grassroots organizing campaign, conducted by LWOP prisoners, with the goal of abolishing life without parole sentences. I am also the editor of "Too Cruel, Not Unusual Enough," an anthology of stories by LWOP prisoners and some others, which is the subject of this Indiegogo campaign.

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