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 ...

Significant progress has been made at Tutwiler over the last thirteen months, and there is no question that more work needs to be done. Skip to Article. Set weather. Back To Main Menu Close.

“Dorm Cameras”: Video surveillance cameras have been installed in the dorms at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. (Source: ADOC) WETUMPKA, AL (WSFA) - More than 300 surveillance cameras are ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Tutwiler Prison for Women: What you haven't heard... The taxpayers of Alabama and, perhaps more importantly, the family members of the women incarcerated at Tutwiler Prison, deserve the facts ...

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 ...