Prison psychologist Larry Wood, who worked at Tutwiler for two months in 2012, said Albright would work 14-hour days. "He clearly saw it as his kingdom," Wood said. "That's the way he behaved.

Tutwiler staff members – some who have worked at the prison for just a few years, others as much as two decades – and other Alabama Department of Corrections employees attended the training ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

Dana's Letter to Allison Neal, staff attorney at the ACLU of Alabama, on access to adequate health care and medication at Julia Tutwiler Prison. (11/4/2007) PDF. Letter to Alabama Governor Riley from ...

(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, ...

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 ...

WETUMPKA, Ala. (WSFA) - 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 ...

The prison is named after Julia Tutwiler. She was an educator who visited the prison for men and women back in the 1930's. She thought an all female facility would work better and by 1942 it was done.

Julia Tutwiler Prison is named for a legendary Alabamian who pushed for better conditions in prisons. An ongoing investigation by the U.S. Justice Department indicates Alabama’s only prison for ...

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 ...