Built in 1942, Tutwiler is Alabama’s oldest prison, and looks like it. It is Alabama’s only maximum-security prison for women and home to the state’s female death row.

WETUMPKA, Alabama – Nicole Brooks' nightmare began on her 34th birthday. On Oct. 16, 2006, she began a yearlong incarceration at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women after pleading guilty to second ...

At one point during Marsha Colby's four-year stint at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, 72 women shared just two working toilets. "We've had worms come up through the drains in the shower area ...

Tutwiler is the only women's prison in the state, and it holds a record 900 inmates, more than double its 400 capacity. The overcrowding, debilitating infrastructure, ...

(The Root) — Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Ala., is in the news again. You may recall that this is the same prison where, in the mid-1980s, ...

I'm writing to say Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women is arguably the worst of Alabama’s prisons — a facility built in 1942, designed for 400 inmates, and costing $350,000 to build.

Sexual misconduct by male correctional staff toward inmates at Alabama's Tutwiler Prison for Women is "commonplace" and has resulted in numerous women becoming pregnant while incarcerated, a ...

Inmates at Tutwiler Prison faced sexual abuse for years, probe says. Jan. 22, 2014— -- A Justice Department investigation accuses Alabama officials of violating women’s rights by fostering ...

WETUMPKA, Ala. - The Department of Justice and the Alabama Department of Corrections moved Thursday to pull back on the DOJ’s oversight of Tutwiler Prison for Women.“For more than nine years ...

Female Officer At Women’s Prison Arrested After Exchanges With Inmate. Tashiba Watkins resigned from her position at the prison in 2023 after text messages revealed she was paid at least $1,000 ...

E very year, dozens of pregnant women are sentenced to Julia Tutwiler Prison in Alabama, long considered one of the worst female prisons in the country. Like most prisons, Tutwiler has nowhere for ...