Julia Tutwiler Prison For Women

sexual abuse and harassment from correctional staff. Tutwiler has a history of unabated staff-on-prisoner sexual abuse and harassment. The women at Tutwiler universally fear for their safety. They live in a sexualized envirolunent with repeated and open sexual behavior, including: abusive sexual contact between staff and prisoners; sexualized activity, including a strip show condoned by staff; profane and sexual abuse, continues, and is grossly undelTepOlied, due to insufficient staffing and systemic deficiencies at Tutwiler that facilitated staff sexual misconduct may also lead to excessive use of force, constitutionally inadequate conditions of confinement, constitutionally that Warden Barret has recently assumed the position, and was not present at the Facility when much of the alleged misconduct took place.

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findings, this letter serves as notice of our intent to expand our investigation into these areas.1

inadequate medical and mental health care, and discriminatory treatment based on national for change thus far. We look forward to continuing to work cooperatively with all interested 1 Because our expanded investigation will evaluate Tutwiler’s overall provision of medical and mental health care, are subject to sexual abuse receive adequate medical and mental health care. This is, in part, due to the fact that the and mental health system with regard to sexual abuse victims could not be completed satisfactorily because we were