News takes you inside a unique program where incarcerated women find purpose and hope in crafting symbols of our freedom.

Shimere Shanklin, a formerly incarcerated woman, is opening a home in Rockford to provide stable housing and resources to ...

Wetumpka is about a 16-mile drive northeast from Montgomery. Tutwiler Prison The Tutwiler Prison for Women has a history of sexual abuse, according to the Equal Justice Initiative.

Marjorie ‘Nikki’ Cappello moved to Tutwiler Prison by: Kait Newsum Posted: Oct 7, 2022 / 10:15 AM CDT Updated: Oct 7, 2022 / 09:27 AM CDT ...

The old Tutwiler housed over 50,000 women over the past 50-plus years, and we expect this new Tutwiler to house even more over many years to come... so yes, we're really excited about today and ...

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.

An Alabama prison employee has died after testing positive for coronavirus. Alabama Department of Corrections announced late Thursday the staff member at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women died after ...

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. Designed for about 550 ...

Every 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 ...

The Julia Tutwiler Prison, historically considered one of the worst women’s prisons in the nation, has been working to create a safer environment since the Justice Department declared in 2014 ...

“ Tutwiler,” the upcoming documentary from The Marshall Project and FRONTLINE (PBS) about a doula program for pregnant women inside Alabama’s notorious Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, has been chosen ...

— In the pink-walled dormitory of the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, nearly all of the inmates had risen before dawn. Some sat on one another’s beds, applying makeup and sipping instant coffee.