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Julia Tutwiler Prison Overview

Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women is an Alabama Department of Corrections facility in Wetumpka. ADOC lists the custody level as maximum and medium and identifies the inmate gender as female. The facility opened in December 1942 and is named for Julia S. Tutwiler, an Alabama educator and prison-reform advocate whom ADOC describes as the "Angel of the Stockades."

Tutwiler serves as the receiving unit for all female inmates entering Alabama's state prison system. That means a woman sentenced from Elmore County or another Alabama county may pass through Tutwiler during state intake, classification, or placement. The prison also has a mental-health unit, medical infirmary, units for pregnant, aged, or infirm inmates, and a female death-row unit. These roles make current ADOC location checks important because custody, housing, and service access can change after reception.

Julia Tutwiler Prison Population

ADOC listed Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women bed occupancy or inmate population as 889 in the research file. The number is a state-prison facility count, not the Elmore County Jail population. It belongs with ADOC's listing for a maximum and medium custody women's prison, and it should be read in the context of Tutwiler's receiving-unit, medical, mental-health, close-custody, and death-row functions.

ADOC search and population totals exclude Youthful Offender Act inmates. The public inmate search is also limited to current ADOC incarceration and does not provide historical online records. If a recently sentenced woman does not appear right away, the transfer may still be pending from county jail or court custody. If the result is broad, ADOC may display only the first 50 matching records in name order.

Search Julia Tutwiler Prison Records

The correct public search route is the ADOC inmate search. Use the AIS number if known because ADOC treats it as the unique six-digit state inmate number and ignores name fields when it is entered. If the AIS number is unknown, search by first name, last name, or both. Confirm that the result lists Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women before using prison-specific contact or mail details.

1. Open the ADOC locator and search by AIS number for the most precise match.
2. Use first and last name if the AIS number is not available.
3. Check the facility field for Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women or another ADOC location.
4. If no ADOC result appears, check whether the person is still in county jail, released, or outside state-prison custody.

A county jail roster is the wrong search tool for a person already received by Tutwiler. The Elmore County Jail may hold people before transfer, but Tutwiler is a state facility. That distinction matters for phone calls, mail, packages, and visits because ADOC controls those services after state reception.

Julia Tutwiler Prison Contact

Use Tutwiler's ADOC contact information for facility-specific questions. The prison's phone number is the proper starting point for visitation information, facility status, and questions that ADOC does not answer through the public locator. The sheriff's jail line is only appropriate when the person remains in county custody and has not entered ADOC.

Julia Tutwiler Prison Visits

ADOC's facility-page instruction is to contact the facility for visitation hours and information. For Tutwiler, call the prison before making plans, especially because the facility includes reception, close custody, medical, mental-health, pregnant, aged, infirm, and death-row units. Those unit assignments can affect eligibility, timing, and the type of visit available.

Do not use the Elmore County Jail's NCIC video visitation rules for Tutwiler. County jail video visits are tied to the sheriff-run jail. Tutwiler is an ADOC prison, and state rules control approval, identification, scheduling, dress, and screening. Confirm the inmate's location in the ADOC locator before travel because female state inmates may move after reception and classification.

Note: Reception and special-unit placement can change visit access, so confirm details before travel.

Julia Tutwiler Prison Mail and Money

ADOC controls prison mail, money, phone, eMessage, incentive packages, and footwear packages for Tutwiler. Facility pages link to statewide service channels, and ADOC publishes an inmate mail resource. Use the inmate's AIS number and current ADOC facility before sending anything. A person at reception may later move to another facility or unit, and the current location should drive every service decision.

The county jail's postcard-only mail rule, correctpay deposit route, and Stacy Williams commissary information do not apply to Tutwiler unless ADOC itself adopts a similar rule. State-prison families should follow ADOC service pages and facility instructions. When a payment or package vendor asks for location, use the ADOC listing rather than an old jail booking record.

Julia Tutwiler Prison Intake

Tutwiler is a reception point for female state inmates, not the local arrest-booking point for Elmore County. Street arrests and local booking begin with the county jail or another local agency. After conviction, sentencing, and transfer to ADOC, Tutwiler may receive the inmate for state intake and classification. Classification helps determine custody level, housing, medical or mental-health placement, and program access.

The facility's receiving role is a key reason to check ADOC repeatedly when a transfer is new. A woman may be listed at Tutwiler during reception and later move, or she may remain there because of custody level or unit needs. Mail, visits, and deposits should follow the current ADOC listing, not the county where the case began.

About Julia Tutwiler Prison

ADOC says Tutwiler includes a mental-health unit, medical infirmary, pregnant, aged, and infirm units, an auditorium, a chapel, substance-abuse treatment, administrative ancillary services, a clothing plant that manufactures inmate clothing for ADOC and county jails, and a female death-row unit. The facility is also classified as close custody. Ingram State programs listed for Tutwiler include Cosmetology, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Automotive Service Writer, Welding, and Office Administration.

The ADOC Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women page is the image source for the screenshot below.

The screenshot grounds Tutwiler's prison population, custody levels, statewide receiving role, and program facts in ADOC's own facility record.