Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Women's Prison Association (WPA), founded 1845, is the oldest advocacy group for women in the United States. The organization has historically focused on New York City and New York State issues, but since 2004 it has also umbrella'd the Institute on Women & Criminal Justice, focusing on women and criminal justice on a national level.Most of WPA's clients in its early years were poor Irish immigrants with alcohol dependency. While the ethnicity of their clients have shifted over time, they organization has had to engage throughout its history with the effects of poverty and substance abuse.. }
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- Women's_Prison_Association abstract "The Women's Prison Association (WPA), founded 1845, is the oldest advocacy group for women in the United States. The organization has historically focused on New York City and New York State issues, but since 2004 it has also umbrella'd the Institute on Women & Criminal Justice, focusing on women and criminal justice on a national level.Most of WPA's clients in its early years were poor Irish immigrants with alcohol dependency. While the ethnicity of their clients have shifted over time, they organization has had to engage throughout its history with the effects of poverty and substance abuse.".