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The Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women is a prison for women of the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC), located in Wetumpka, Alabama named after prison reform activist Julia Tutwiler. All female inmates entering ADOC are sent to the receiving unit in Tutwiler. [ 1 ]
Kilby Correctional Facility Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Prison Photo County Location Opened Security class Capacity Notes Bibb Correctional Facility: Bibb: Brent
James T. Kilborn of The New York Times said that when the Tallahatchie facility opened in 2000 with 351 prisoners, including 322 from Wisconsin, it "seemed the salvation of" Tutwiler. [7] Some area residents quit their jobs and began working as Correctional Officers at the facility. After the prison's opening, its monthly payroll was $467,000. [5]
Edwina Donnelly Mitchell (1894–1968) was the Superintendent (warden) of Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women located in Wetumpka, Alabama. Background [ edit ] Originally from Autauga County, Alabama , [1] she was a graduate of Alabama College (now University of Montevallo ) and a 1946 graduate of Vanderbilt University Law School .
In his February 2017 State of the State address, Governor Bentley talked in more detail about his proposed three-faceted approach to overhaul the Department of Corrections: "One, close Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women and build a new 1,200 bed women’s facility; Two, consolidate 13 of 15 close- and medium-security men’s facilities into three ...
As of 2001 Tutwiler did not have any clothing stores, drugstores, or restaurants. [7] Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility, a private prison operated by the Corrections Corporation of America for the Mississippi Department of Corrections, is located near Tutwiler in an unincorporated area in the county.
Julia Tutwiler Prison houses the state's female death row inmates. Capital punishment in Alabama is a legal penalty. Alabama has the highest per capita capital sentencing rate in the United States. In some years, its courts impose more death sentences than Texas, a state that has a population five times as large. [1]
Julia Strudwick Tutwiler (August 15, 1841 – March 24, 1916) was an advocate for education and prison reform in Alabama. She served as co-principal of the Livingston Female Academy, and then the first (and only) woman president of Livingston Normal College (now the University of West Alabama ).