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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for the Taliban’s supreme leader and ...
And the state needs a smaller, more modern prison to house and rehabilitate women who committed serious crimes. The existing ...
In a disturbing turn of events from Washington State, a violent male prisoner who identifies as transgender has been transferred back to a men's prison after a harrowing history of sexual assault ...
A prisoner accused of killing her cellmate at Wisconsin's women's prison has pleaded no contest to homicide. Prosecutors charged 29-year-old Taylor Sanchez in January 2024 with ...
"This program is really a rebirth for me," said Maricell Vega. "Because I have lost myself, and I've been lost for so long ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
A pregnant inmate at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama. Then: What is it like to give birth — and be forced to say goodbye to your baby 24 hours later?
Tutwiler's efforts were successful and in 1893, Anna Adams and Bessie Parker became UA's first female students. Tutwiler also was an advocate for prison reform in Alabama and she wrote the ...
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.