The front entrance of Julia Tutwiler Prison is located along U.S. Highway 231 in Wetumpka, Alabama. |
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| Location | Wetumpka, Alabama |
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| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Maximum |
| Capacity | 702 |
| Population | 985 (as of 2007) |
| Opened | December 1942 |
| Managed by | Alabama Department of Corrections |
| Warden | Frank Albright |
The Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women is a prison for women of the Alabama Department of Corrections, located in Wetumpka, Alabama. All female inmates entering ADOC are sent to the receiving unit in Tutwiler.[1] Tutwiler houses the state's female death row.[2] Because of this, the ADOC classifies the prison as "maximum security."[1]
Construction on the current Tutwiler Prison was completed in December 1942. The prison, built for $350,000, originally held up to 400 female prisoners. The current Tutwiler replaced the previous Wetumpka State Penitentiary, which was the first state prison. The prison was renamed after Julia Tutwiler, an advocate for education of prisoners and an advocate for improvement of prison conditions; the woman gained the nickname "Angel of the Stockades." The prison has a clothing factory.[1]
The walls of one dormitory are painted in a medicinal pink in order to soothe inmates. In 2003 Tutwiler was overcrowded. During that year a judge declared that Tutwiler's conditions violated the U.S. Constitution.[3]
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