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 ...

On Oct. 16, 2006, she began a yearlong incarceration at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women after pleading guilty to second-degree burglary. "I was scared every day of my life in there," she said.

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 ...

Latasha James was transferred from Cullman County Detention Center to Tutwiler Prison two weeks before she gave birth to her daughter in October. James spent three days with her baby before she ...

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 ...

Nevertheless, positive changes have been all too slow in coming. I'm writing to say Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women is arguably the worst of Alabama’s prisons — a facility built in 1942 ...

This has been the horrific reality for the women serving time at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Alabama. A new investigation by the Justice Department reveals that this facility has been the ...

Sexual misconduct by male correctional staff toward inmates at Alabama's Tutwiler Prison for Women is "commonplace" and has resulted in numerous women becoming pregnant while incarcerated ...

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 ...

Tashiba Watkins resigned from her position at the prison in 2023 after text messages revealed she was paid at least $1,000 by an inmate. Tashiba Watkins, a correctional officer at Julia Tutwiler ...