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Title: A word to the fish
Author: Vanderford, Anna
Pages: 1 page
Topics: Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O): 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...
PID: apw:12352970
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-25T19:49:28.89Z

Title: Civil war
Author: Vanderford, Anna
Pages: 1 page
Topics: Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O): 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 "...
PID: apw:12352964
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-25T19:49:24.464Z

Title: Cooked frogs
Author: Vanderford, Anna
Pages: 3 pages
Topics: Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O): ‘ @ 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...
PID: apw:12356330
Date Uploaded: 2019-05-28T17:21:44.618Z

Title: Gargle, rinse, repeat
Author: Vanderford, Anna
Pages: 2 pages
Topics: Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O): 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...
PID: apw:12353071
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-25T21:48:17.647Z

Title: More than my share
Author: Vanderford, Anna
Pages: 1 page
Topics: Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O): 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 ...
PID: apw:12352968
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-25T19:49:27.409Z

Title: My crime: The very simplified version of my life
Author: Vanderford, Anna
Pages: 8 pages
Topics: Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O): 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...
PID: apw:12353560
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-27T00:38:37.591Z

Title: Rabbit blood
Author: Vanderford, Anna
Pages: 3 pages
Topics: Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O): 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...
PID: apw:12356334
Date Uploaded: 2019-05-28T17:21:52.165Z

Title: Short
Author: Vanderford, Anna
Pages: 3 pages
Topics: Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O): 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...
PID: apw:12353174
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-26T10:58:04.913Z

Title: The spectacle
Author: Vanderford, Anna
Pages: 1 page
Topics: Prisoners' writings, American -- Unknown, Unknown. Department of Correction
Text (O): 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 ...
PID: apw:12352966
Date Uploaded: 2018-09-25T19:49:26.01Z

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