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 ...

As Governor, it is my responsibility to address the problems that exist in Alabama's prison system. I want Alabamians to know that custodial misconduct in our correctional facilities will not be ...

WETUMPKA, AL (WSFA) - More than 300 surveillance cameras are up and running at the Alabama Department of Corrections' troubled Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka. The ADOC says the camera ...

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.

(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, ...

Dana Harley, 33, has been incarcerated at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women since 2002 and has been HIV-positive for six years. She has a 7-year-old son and teaches in the Floral Design Program at ...

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, ...

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 ...

The following is an opinion-editorial from Kim Thomas, Commissioner of the State of Alabama Department of Corrections regarding allegations of abuse at Tutwiler Prison for Women.

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 ...