They say you can't defame the dead. Good thing or Julia Tutwiler would have a primo case against the state of Alabama for besmirching her good name. In an historic irony, the United States ...

The U.S. Justice Department and the Alabama Department of Corrections reached an agreement Thursday meant to protect inmates at the notorious Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. That prison, in ...

A former Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women clerk was convicted of tax evasion and using her position for personal gain, WSFA reports. Shirley Jean Walters pleaded guilty to the two felony counts in ...

Advocates say Alabama’s transfer of some female inmates to out-of-state, for-profit facilities goes in the opposite direction of what the women need, which are community treatment programs and plenty ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The federal government will roll back almost all oversight over an Alabama women's prison on Thursday, according to court filings, nine years after the Department of ...

Julia Tutwiler Women’s Facility in Wetumpka, Ala. has been under federal oversight since 2015, when feds found a “pattern” of sexual abuse at the facility Elmore County Sheriff Laquentin Brantley in ...

She was having trouble coping with her loss and needed time to grieve, but her plea for a day off from her prison job at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama, didn’t persuade its ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The federal government will roll back almost all oversight over an Alabama women’s prison on Thursday, according to court filings, nine years after the Department of ...

The prison supervisor allegedly demanded that a female inmate at Julia Tutwiler Women’s Facility in Wetumpka perform sex acts “any time he felt like it” or risk getting written up for ...

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The federal government will roll back almost all oversight over an Alabama women's prison on Thursday, according to court filings, nine years after the Department of ...