A person behind bars. The Alabama Department of Corrections said Thursday that the Department of Justice had scaled back a 2015 consent agreement to address sexual abuse and harassment of women ...

A decade after finding that Alabama failed to protect women incarcerated at Julia Tutwiler Prison from sexual abuse and harassment, the U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to scale back its ...

Elledge was sentenced to Tutwiler in 2021 and was released on parole in 2022 after she was accepted for a spot at Lovelady Center, a Christian residential facility in Birmingham that helps women ...

A woman in Alabama will spend the next two decades in state prison after pleading guilty to child abuse in a case prosecutors ...

WETUMPKA, Ala. (WSFA) - A federal judge Wednesday terminated most of the Department of Justice’s oversight of Alabama’s only prison for women. The Alabama Department of Corrections has been under a ...

The Alabama Department of Corrections is opening up about its actions to fix problems at Tutwiler Women's Prison. A federal investigation recently revealed widespread sexual harassment of inmates, ...

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 ...

Alabama is spending $1.25 billion to build a 4,000-bed prison for men intended to help with the crowding, violence, weapons, and drugs that plague the state’s aging and understaffed correctional ...