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1845

From Respectability to Empowerment: Women's Prison Reform since 1845

Founded in 1845 in New York City, the Women's Prison Association was the first organization dedicated to working with women involved in the criminal justice system and their families.

1873

Expediting our research meant asking pointed questions. It was only then that a state librarian found a critical article stating that the Sisters of the Good Shepherd had opened a facility for women prisoners in 1873, the same year our facility had opened.

1875

Superintendant’s Report, Fourth Report of the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls, Year Ending December 31, 1875, 11.

1887

Mary Humphries, a white federal prisoner from Ohio, pled for another investigation into cruelty at IWP in 1887.

1897

Indeed, not until October 27, 1897—24 years after the prison’s founding—did Estella Koup arrive at the prison as the first woman sent there for prostitution.

1952

After a 1952 earthquake, CIW, then the largest women’s prison in the US, moved to Frontera, a feminized version of the word “frontier” meant to symbolize new beginnings, and was rebuilt to be a model of rehabilitation.

2022

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Women's Prison Association may also be known as or be related to WOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION AND HOME, Women's Prison Association and Women's Prison Association - WPA.