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Title
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A word to the fish
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Author
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Vanderford, Anna
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Pages
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1 page
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Anna MI Vanderford OK A Word to the Fish I don't know why they call new arrivals "fish", perhaps because you feel like a fish out of water, when you arrive in prison. My mom was an old Jewish lady, old by even the standard of other parents. She was really old enough to be my grandmother when she and her retired husband adopted me. She used to say ,"You can't put an old head on: young shoulders." I'm not sure that I ever knew what that meant nor cared. Howeve...
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PID
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apw:12352970
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-25T19:49:28.89Z
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As of today July 31st 2017
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Author
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Pineda, April Dawn
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Date
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2017-07-31
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Pages
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11 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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NO TITLE By: April Dawn Pineda As of today July 31st 2017, I sit in my 10 by 4 concrete cell with a blue steel door, with no visability out a purposely fogged out window, (so we can't see the sky, for what reason I do not know) with a hatch for our meals in a maximum level 4 unit locked down for 23 hours a day to the beat of commercials, banging, clanging and screaming at all hours of the day. I'm at Elmwood Correctional facility in Milpitas California and have been in maximum level...
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PID
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apw:12350750
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Date Uploaded
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2018-03-16T15:41:34.754Z
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Title
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Civil war
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Author
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Vanderford, Anna
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Pages
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1 page
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Anna M. Vanderford OK Civil War Did you know that we have been having a civil war for many years now, what was deemed as The War on Drugs. Not only was I on the wrong side of the war but I am a casualty of the war. I grew up with an alcoholic, pedophile for a father and a cult-blinded, religious mother. I was scared of everything, but if I was going to live in sin, I had narrowed it down to my childhood sin of sex. My boyfriend on the other hand, was into drugs. All those sayings about "...
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PID
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apw:12352964
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-25T19:49:24.464Z
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Title
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Cooked frogs
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Author
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Vanderford, Anna
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Pages
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3 pages
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Text (O)
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‘ @ Anna M. Vanderford Old address New Address 537261 MBCC C1-A-215 145673 1010 W 5”‘ Ave. 29501 Kickapoo Rd. Shakopee, MN 55379 Mc Loud, OK 74851 Cooked Frogs I came from a very abusive single parent home. I’d been beat with hair brushes, appliance cords and slapped. I only stayed as long as I did because I didn’t know what else to do. It wasn’t long before I was in the company of teens that could and would dare me to do things that would endanger their future. I was their shoplifter, I proc...
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PID
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apw:12356330
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Date Uploaded
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2019-05-28T17:21:44.618Z
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Title
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Gargle, rinse, repeat
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Author
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Vanderford, Anna
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Pages
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2 pages
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Text (O)
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Anna Vanderford Old address New Address 537261 MBCC C1-A-215 145673 1010 W. 6th Ave. 29501 Kickapoo Rd. Shakopee, MN 55379 Mc Loud , OK 74851 Gargle . Rinse, Repeat You are an adult, you've broken the law, you are in prison, but there's nothing else short of killing you that anyone can do to you, now add, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO! Certainly, not some ignorant inmate that you didn't ask for an opinion from. You get into a scuffle with another inmate. Off to the ja...
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PID
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apw:12353071
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-25T21:48:17.647Z
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Title
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It wasn't long ago that I found myself
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Author
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Rosado, Enysia
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Pages
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3 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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It wasn't long ago that I found myself in a compromising situation as a "inmate" at York Correctional Institution, in Niantic, Connecticut. I put great emphasis on "inmate", because it seems that is all we are to those employed through out the facility. Although we are distinguished by numbers while incarcerated, we must remember we are so much more! Daily, many of us become victims of psychological abuse by staff. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words...
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PID
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apw:12359787
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:33:25.705Z
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Title
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More than my share
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Author
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Vanderford, Anna
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Pages
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1 page
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Anna M. Vanderford NEW ADDRESS 537261 MBCC C1-A-215 145673 1010 W. 6*“ Ave. 29501 Kickapoo Rd. Shakopee, MN 55379 Mc Loud, OK 74851 More Than My Share A Every night, I would awaken to an orgasm, as he gave me oral sex. Eventually he penetrated me with his tongue, then replaced it with a cold beer bottle then himself. When he grew bored of my being Daddy’s girl, I was shared with a private club of Uncles, which were his friends. It all came to an abrupt halt when he committed suicide. But the ...
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PID
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apw:12352968
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-25T19:49:27.409Z
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Title
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My crime: The very simplified version of my life
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Author
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Vanderford, Anna
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Pages
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8 pages
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Text (O)
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Anna M. Vanderford 1010 w. 6”‘ Ave. -#145673 Shakopee, Mn 55379 The American Prison Writing Archive 198 College Hill Rd. Clinton, NY 13323 My crime: The very simplified version of my life, I was 19 years old, in a whirlwind courtship. I had lied to my adoptive mom to get money supposedly for college but it was to help the dude obtain drugs, I was pregnant with his child and he was leaving me. I shot him and was sentenced to life in prison. After an escape and trip to Thailand, I was essential...
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PID
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apw:12353560
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-27T00:38:37.591Z
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Title
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My name is Jammie Mclean... [1]
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Author
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McLean, Jammie "New Hope"
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Date
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2015-05-17
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Pages
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4 pages
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State
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California
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Text (TR)
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Jammie McLean California Hope Dear fire inside. 5 - 17 - 15 My name is Jammie Mclean. I am writeing for a few reasons and I hope by the time your done with this letter it will help others. Thank you. Well right now I am in SHU at C. I. W. I been in SHU almost 2 yrs. This has been the hardest time for me yet only because I been threw a lot. Like I said I was 17 yrs. old when I got 17 - life I came right to prison at age 17. No help no friends just me. I did not kill no one. I was just that luc...
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PID
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apw:12342906
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Date Uploaded
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2016-10-17T12:59:53.547Z
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Title
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My name is Jammie Mclean... [2]
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Author
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McLean, Jammie "New Hope"
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Date
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2015-05-18
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Pages
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6 pages
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State
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California
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Jammie McLean California [No Title] Dear fire inside. 5 - 18 -15 My name is Jammie Mclean. I am writing hoping my thoughts help others just by my words. (I hope.) My name is Jammie some know me as Pookey. I been down for almost 19 years. I was 17 when I got this life put on me. I by passed C.Y.A. went right to prison. This is not the same story everyone tells trust me. No I am not like the rest. I have flaws not scard to say it. I did a lot to prove myself to others just to fit in (how dumb)....
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PID
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apw:12342911
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Date Uploaded
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2016-10-17T12:59:53.835Z
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Title
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Rabbit blood
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Author
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Vanderford, Anna
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Pages
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3 pages
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Text (O)
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Anna M. Vanderford Rabbit Blood I had been taken to jail for a second degree murder charge. I was released on bail. So far as I knew I hadn't done anything to forfeit bail. I was home, in my mom's house, she was home from the hospital, on an oxygen machine. I was taking a shower; I think I had a court date in a few days. The police surrounded the house. I could see them silhouetted outside the bathroom. My mom was terrified and mortified as the announcement was made through a blow h...
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PID
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apw:12356334
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Date Uploaded
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2019-05-28T17:21:52.165Z
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Title
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Short
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Author
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Vanderford, Anna
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Pages
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3 pages
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Text (O)
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Anna M. Vanderford Old Address [ID] MBCC C1-A-215 29501 Kickapoo Rd. McLoud, OK 74851 New Address 145673 1010 W. 6th. Ave. Shakopee, MN 55379 Short It's often said that prisoners get "short and shitty". I've never understood the term. How could I understand it; having been sentenced to life in prison. Until this morning... I'm 50 years old, I've served 30 years and this broad in front of me, starts saying "there will be no cutting/bucking the line": Wel...
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PID
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apw:12353174
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-26T10:58:04.913Z
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Title
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Some of us come to prison
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Author
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W, Hannah
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Pages
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2 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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Some of us come to prison with great intentions of never coming back, then there are some who come back because the lesson was not learned. Some of our stories are the same when it comes to our past. Others past are beyond different. We get to prison where all the employees and officers are supposed to be care, custody and control. The prison is supposed to rehabilitate you for the free world. The whole system is a form of "re-entry". But the problem in this prison case is, the men ...
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PID
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apw:12359097
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Date Uploaded
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2020-06-18T19:15:59.744Z
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Title
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The spectacle
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Author
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Vanderford, Anna
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Pages
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1 page
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Topics
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Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
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Anna M. Vanderford NEW Ap_Q_l3l;I§_§ 537261 MBCC C1-A-215 145673 1010 W. 6"‘ Ave. 29501 Kickapoo Rd. Shakopee, MN 55379 Mc Loud, OK 74851 The Spectacle I remember being arrested in Minnesota. l was a lithe young woman, waist-length, dark brown hair, beautiful and ever so stupid. An officer coming on duty was trying to flirt with me. Little did he know I was pregnant and had just been arrested for shooting my boyfriend. On his way out, he made a snide comment, that he had been talking to ...
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PID
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apw:12352966
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Date Uploaded
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2018-09-25T19:49:26.01Z
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Title
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Underneath: "What happens behind closed doors"
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Author
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Rosado, Enysia
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Pages
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3 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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1 of 3 Underneath "What happens behind closed doors..." York Correctional Institution is the only female prison in the State of Connecticut. "A world within a world," some say. The world that doesn't publicize it's misfortunes and tragedies. It's not the only place that keeps deep, dark and dreary secrets. Enclosed, behind the wired fences are women with a beating heart and story they're dying to share. How do you respond to a "Hi, how are you?&quo...
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PID
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apw:12360723
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Date Uploaded
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2021-02-03T15:42:32.939Z
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Title
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Works of art
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Author
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Rosado, Enysia
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Pages
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3 pages
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Text (TR_WF)
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Works of Art Delusional Imprisonment 1. "Incarceration changed my life", I uttered to the immaculate soul sitting across from me. In this very audible, dull and dingy looking room sat my biggest supporter, my mom. In August, 2017, I was unaware that I would be embarking on a long, lonesome and drawn out journey as a State of Connecticut, Department of Corrections inmate. I was welcomed by illiterate jail house lawyers, the smell of body odor, vomit and unpleasing Correctional Office...
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PID
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apw:12358021
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Date Uploaded
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2019-10-28T20:40:41.806Z