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Passover
2023

Passover
Harkleroad, JamesFlorida
Comfortably confined Christmas
December 24, 2022

Comfortably confined Christmas
Madoulet, Scott A.Washington
State issued socks
circa 2021

State issued socks
May, Larry E.California
Notes from the pen, 2020 December 2
December 2, 2020

Notes from the pen, 2020 December 2

 Notes From The Pen December 02, 2020 By Jacob Keiter On Jan. 4, 2018, 24-year-old Jacob Keiter, from East Hanover Township, was sentenced to five years in federal prison on drug trafficking charges. Keiter reached...
Keiter, Jacob A.Pennsylvania
Hope your Thanksgiving is blessed with grateful hearts
October 4, 2019

Hope your Thanksgiving is blessed with grateful hearts

 Hope your Thanksgiving is blessed with grateful hearts, Traditionally Thanksgiving has been reserved for family and close friends where we spend the entire day together, eating our abundance of turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie, watching...
Gerholt, JohnPennsylvania
Today is Thanksgiving day
November 23, 2017

Today is Thanksgiving day

 23 November 2017 Today is Thanksgiving Day, and I have a lot to be thankful for: I am thankful to be alive; I should've been dead a long time ago, and I should've been dead...
Bazan, CristobalTexas
Thanksgiving Day 2014
October 23, 2016

Thanksgiving Day 2014

 Thanksgiving Day 2014 By Darin Bufalino Let me share with you some of things I am thankful for this Thanksgiving Day. Before I do, some will recall after seeing the by-line that I have been...
Bufalino, DarinMassachusetts
Holiday blues 'n blahs
October 14, 2016

Holiday blues 'n blahs

 Roc Magnific Holiday Blues ‘n Blahs There’s nothing more effacing for one to lose control of hiser positive thinking when being confined during holidays. Melancholy, despair, depression (especially that dog, depression)… tag-team to assault one’s...
Magnific, RocArkansas
Chronicles in December
June 2016

Chronicles in December
Mason, FrederickArizona
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If you are working on an APWA-related project, please let us know how you plan to utilize the Archive. We hope to share information about your work with our readers and, whenever possible, with relevant APWA authors.

APWA is an open access archive. We encourage use of the writings for research, course planning, and projects engaged in examination of the criminal legal system. Reproduction of essays in their entirety infringes on author copyright without their explicit consent from the writers. Please contact us if you plan to reproduce entire essays; we will do our best to put you in contact with the authors for consent, and their compensation for any project that is profit making.

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