Early drug use, my spiral into theft addiction, and getting arrested.
Turning myself into the courts and finding recovery in prison.
Would you turn in evidence of a horrific crime if it meant spending the rest of your life in prison?
Would you turn in evidence of a horrific crime if it meant spending the rest of your life in prison?
Matthew Hahn talks to Emma Barnett about the moment he stole a safe and how that theft changed his life.
Matthew steals a safe containing evidence of sexual violence against children, and has to confront a moral dilemma.
How does someone heal an addictive mind? 🤕 Our conversation explores how Buddhist principles and practices empower those in recovery to find inner wisdom.
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Matthew Hahn | The Evergreen Review | Spring 2025
We were firefighters and we were prisoners. We lived in a minimum security prison called a fire camp in a canyon north of Los Angeles. If there was a brush fire, a grass fire, or a forest fire, we’d show up. Pretty much any type of fire that wasn’t in a building, we’d show up. Sometimes, we’d even show up for car accidents and floods and windstorms…
Jennifer Wadsworth | Good Times | Sep 8, 2020
One former inmate, Matthew Hahn, 40, stepped outside his San Jose home on Aug. 19 to see ash falling from an orange, hazy sky, and decided to pack a camera before heading to work. “I’m a hobbyist photographer,” he says, “and I figured I’d get some good shots on a day.”
Matthew Hahn | The Marshall Project | June 6, 2017
From the bare patch of dirt in my garden, I could look over the wall to the south and see the free world outside. I could look over the tall, chain-link fence on the northern perimeter and see the river and the granite cliffs it had carved out over many millennia. I could feel the wind, and place my hands in the mud.
Sean Webby | Knight Ridder Tribune Times | Oct 11, 2019
Matthew Ryan Hahn glared in disbelief at the digital photographs of a man molesting a girl. She was only a year old, maybe two. The next thing to do would be obvious — call police. But Hahn had been convicted of burglary more than once.
Matt Katz | NPR | May 28, 2023
Matthew Hahn was incarcerated years ago, and his mother-in-law lives near the prison graveyard at Green Haven. She told him that some gravestones there didn’t have names. So last winter, Hahn walked over, and groundskeepers, before kicking him off the property, told him they were in the process of adding the names.
Helen Thomas and Patrick Kiteley | BBC | Feb 19, 2020
Matthew Hahn knew he had to do something, but he also knew any felony conviction could result in a life sentence. So, Hahn put the camera card in a change purse, writing a note with the man’s name and the address of the home he had stolen it from. He added: “Please remove this animal from the streets” and posted it to the police.
