{"id":1121,"date":"2015-01-16T18:02:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T00:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candoclemency.com\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2022-08-19T15:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T20:45:05","slug":"terry-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/terry-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Terry Anderson – 30 Years – clemency on 1\/19\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Terry
Terry with her Twin Daughters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Terry Anderson just received the gift of freedom from President Obama – we are elated – Terry can now reunite with her twin daughters and extended family!<\/p>\n

Please sign Terry’s change.org petition.<\/a><\/p>\n

Terry Lynn Anderson is #07 on the Top 25\u00a0Women Who Deserve Clemency<\/strong>
\nDOB:<\/strong> 12-29-62
\nAge:<\/strong> 52
\nRace:<\/strong> White
\nChildren:<\/strong> Twin daughters
\nCharge:<\/strong> Conspiracy to Manufacture and Disb. Meth;\u00a0Conspiracy to Money Launder
\nSentence:<\/strong> 30 years
\nServed:<\/strong> 19yrs
\nRelease Date:<\/strong> June 4, 2023
\nPriors: 2 state drug cases\u00a0<\/strong>
\nPrison Conduct:<\/strong>\u00a0Few minor incidents
\nClemency:<\/strong> Filled out survey for Clemency Project 2014<\/p>\n

Accomplishments:<\/strong>\u00a0 40 Hour Drug Program; Office Tech, INT&MYST. paces; Change Program; Keyboarding, 10 key, Clerical skills\/Office Tech; Computer Skills; Financial Record-Office Tech;\u00a0Professional Test;RPP6\/Coping with Anxiety, Grief and Loss; Video Predators Advanced Abdominal Class; resolution; Values 2 Aerobics; Spirituality compl Equip. (see more below)<\/p>\n

\"Terry
Terry with her twin daughters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While in prison<\/strong>, I have consistently held a job. When I came to Carswell I started in the Business Office where I did office work and secretarial work. After the business office I worked in Commissary and Inmate telephone ordering related to the commissary. These were the highest paying jobs on the compound. After that they added on to the prison by building a high-rise; causing the inmate population to grow and the prison opened a Unicor. I started at Unicor keying in U.S. patents for the government and later, the job changed to distribution of cars, trucks etc. Then, I started being a 411 operator for Unicor. \u00a0Unicor shut down around 2012. At that point I became head orderly. I have alway gotten excellent reviews on all of my jobs.<\/p>\n

In 2000 I completed the Change Program which is a program specific to a life issue – mine was drugs; I later was a mentor for the Change Program and received a certificate for the most participation. It helped me to realize what I put myself and family through and gave me the big picture about what my choices cost me and my family. In 2002 I competed conflict resolution; Value I & 2 class in 2001; Grief and Loss class twice in 2006; In 2006 I took coping with anxiety twice; Sleep improvement in 2006; 2012 5 Keys to Happiness. \u00a0I took basketball clinic in 2014 and spinning class in 2013 and Aerobics in 2001 and Abdominal Class in 2001. For ACE classes I took Interesting and Mysterious Places in 2010<\/p>\n

Between 1997 and 2011 I did several office\/computer courses. I did a computed apprenticeship and logged 2000 hours computer clerical time. This taught me basic computer functioning. I did keyboarding; clerical skills\/office tech; computer skill office tech; financial office records.<\/p>\n

According to Terry:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Admittedly, I went down the wrong path when I was young. \u00a0I married an abusive man when I was 20 (after I had split up with my high-school sweetheart). \u00a0After one year, I left him due to physical abuse and tried to raise my daughters as a single mom. \u00a0My own parents are just wonderful and very supportive. I should have gone home but I let my pride overpower me and thought I could take care of my kids by myself. I didn’t want to let my parents down – I wanted to show them I was a big girl. \u00a0I was so very wrong. \u00a0I went to Austin, Texas to go to a business school, but it didn’t work out, so I came back to my home town to get a job and eventually started selling drugs to make ends meet. \u00a0 I also started using drugs…I was on the wrong path.<\/p>\n

\"Terry
Terry (middle) with Two Sisters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then, I married Tom in 1994. \u00a0We sold drugs and at some point, he started working with the feds. I only learned this when I got to prison and tried to set up a phone call with him and my counselor asked me if I was sure because he could see in the paperwork that he was a government informant. He’s been out now for 3 years and has filed for divorce.<\/p>\n

There were 13 people in “The Anderson Case” – 8 men and 5 women. \u00a0Of my family members indicted, two were sisters, my husband and a brother-in-law and the rest were co-defendants. I have never said that I was innocent. \u00a0I did sell drugs, I rented cars and hotel rooms and purchased cell phones, but I was not the person they made me out to be, which was the big kingpin. \u00a0I was the middle person – and my involvement was far less than some of the others. What I did not know was that my husband was “confidential informant #1.” \u00a0Because I refused to “cooperate,” I got the kingpin status – I was never caught with drugs or big money. Only one co-defendant is still in prison – two have died and the rest are all home. \u00a0The five men have been in and out of prison – they got\u00a0caught with LOTS of money and drugs and assets, plus guns, but they are all out.<\/p>\n

\"Terry
Terry with her mother and father<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have been separted from my 2 twin girls since they were 12 years old. My parents have lovingly raised them, but it’s been so hard on them. I see them only once every couple of months. They are now 32. They \u00a0have had a hard time understanding why people who commit murder get less time than I got. \u00a0It is hard to put into words how bad this has affected them. My parents have been hurt terribly too. I am their youngest child and we were always so close. I understand that I needed to be punished and that I was wrong. \u00a0I just pray that I am considered worthy of mercy because I truly do understand that my behavior led to my own demise and I will never disappoint my family again by compromising myself or them when it comes to the collateral damage that accompanies drug use and\/or dealing.<\/p>\n

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Terry Anderson just received the gift of freedom from President Obama – we are elated – Terry can now reunite with her twin daughters and extended family! Please sign Terry’s change.org petition. Terry Lynn Anderson is #07 on the Top 25\u00a0Women Who Deserve Clemency DOB: 12-29-62 Age: 52 Race: White Children: Twin daughters Charge: Conspiracy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-now-free","tag-can-do-foundation"],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/unnamed-41-e1421460431562.jpg",100,100,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy Ralston Povah","author_link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/author\/candoamy\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":5,"name":"Now Free","slug":"now-free","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":192,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":192,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Now Free","category_nicename":"now-free","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"CAN-DO Foundation","slug":"can-do-foundation","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":461,"filter":"raw"}],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":5,"label":"Now Free"}],"post_tag":[{"value":27,"label":"CAN-DO Foundation"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15002,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/15002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}