Tutwiler Prison Release Records

Releases from Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women

ADOC lists Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women at 8966 U.S. Highway 231 N., Wetumpka, AL 36092, with phone 334-567-4369. ADOC says the facility opened in December 1942 and serves as the receiving unit for all female inmates entering the Alabama state prison system. It also has medical, mental-health, pregnancy, and aged or infirm units.

Because Tutwiler is a receiving and classification point, a woman may have a Tutwiler institutional record even if her sentencing county, supervision county, or final release location is somewhere else. The release record should be built from the AIS number, commit county, case number, facility history, release date or transfer reason, and any ABPP supervision status.

How to Confirm a Tutwiler Release

Start with ADOC only while current custody is possible. ADOC's public inmate search is current-only and does not serve as a historical released-prisoner archive. A person missing from the search after a known Tutwiler stay may have discharged, transferred, been listed under a name variation, or require an ADOC records request.

1. Search ADOC by AIS number when possible.
2. Compare name, sex, facility, commit county, case number, offense, sentence date, custody level, minimum release date, and parole consideration date.
3. If the result shows another ADOC facility, treat it as a transfer unless a discharge or release source confirms otherwise.
4. After release, use ADOC public records for release or discharge data.
5. Contact ABPP if parole, mandatory release, probation, or revocation supervision is involved.
6. Use the sentencing court to confirm disposition, sentence, jail credit, and later orders.

The Elmore County released inmate lookup should not collapse Tutwiler into the sheriff roster. The sheriff path is for Elmore County Jail detainees. Tutwiler is ADOC state custody.

Tutwiler Records and Contact

When requesting a release record, include the AIS number if known, full legal name, date of birth if known, commit county, case number, sentencing county, facility, release date if known, and whether the request concerns discharge, parole, mandatory release, or transfer. The ADOC public-record request form states a non-refundable $20 processing fee.

About Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women

Tutwiler's statewide receiving role is the key release-record nuance. The facility may appear early in a woman's prison history because she entered the state system there, but her final release may occur after classification, treatment, transfer, or supervision planning. Commit county and case number are the bridge from the ADOC record to the court file that explains the sentence.

The ADOC Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women page is the source shown below, and it is useful for confirming the women's receiving-unit role.

Supervision After Tutwiler

If the release results in parole, mandatory release, or probation supervision in Elmore County, the ABPP Wetumpka Field Office is the local office. It serves Elmore County from Room 173 in the Elmore County Judicial Building at 8935 U.S. Highway 231 in Wetumpka. A parole result does not prove the person physically left that day because ABPP verifies the home plan and coordinates with ADOC.

Mandatory release is also a state-prison supervision route. ABPP's FAQ describes sentence-length windows under Alabama Code Section 15-22-26.2, with exclusions. It is not a county 24-hour release feed and should not be checked through the sheriff roster unless there is a separate county booking.

Record Limits and Registries

ADOC's public search does not keep historical release data online, and medical or mental-health information connected to Tutwiler's specialized units should not be requested through ordinary public-release copy unless the requester has proper authorization. For qualifying registry cases, ALEA's registry or Community Information Center may show public registry information after release, but that registry is not a general list of all women released from Tutwiler.

Name and Court Matching

Tutwiler release research often requires extra care with names and court identifiers. A person may have a married name, prior name, suffix, spelling variation, or middle-name difference between court records, ADOC records, and supervision records. The AIS number is the cleanest bridge when available. When it is not available, match the person by date of birth if known, commit county, case number, offense, sentence date, and facility history before assuming a result belongs to the same person.

The commit county can be especially important for Tutwiler because the facility receives women from across Alabama. A woman may be physically in Wetumpka while the court of record is in Elmore County, Montgomery County, or another Alabama county. Use the sentencing county's court record for the sentence, jail credit, disposition, probation order, split sentence, revocation order, or expungement order. Use the Wetumpka ABPP office only when Elmore County is the supervision location after release.

Receiving Unit Caution

Tutwiler's receiving-unit role means the facility can appear at the beginning of a prison term rather than at the end. A person may enter ADOC through Tutwiler, receive medical or classification review, and later move to another state facility before release. If the only source says "Tutwiler" without a release date, do not assume Tutwiler was the final facility. Ask whether the record shows intake, classification, transfer, discharge, parole, mandatory release, or return from a medical or supervision event.

This caution is especially useful for older records and family accounts. A relative may remember the facility where the person first entered state custody, while the official release occurred from another ADOC institution. ADOC records, the sentencing court, ABPP, and VNS notifications should be reconciled before describing the person as released from Tutwiler.

Final Tutwiler Check

Before closing a Tutwiler search, confirm three things: whether ADOC shows release or transfer, whether ABPP shows supervision after release, and whether the sentencing court record matches the ADOC commit county and case number. If those three sources point in different directions, keep the status narrow until the conflict is resolved.