A screening and discussion of Tutwiler, a documentary short by The Marshall Project and FRONTLINE PBS on what it is like to be an expectant mother in Alabama’s Julia Tutwiler Prison, and the doula program trying to help these women prepare for birth.
03.20.2020
Southside Center for the Arts
1103 Glenn Street
Opelika, AL 36801
This event has been postponed to Fall 2020. A new date will be announced at a later time.
A screening and discussion of Tutwiler, a documentary by The Marshall Project and FRONTLINE (PBS) offering a powerful window into the lives of incarcerated women who are expecting a child. The film will be shown, followed by a discussion with doulas from the Alabama Prison Birth Project about issues faced by incarcerated pregnant women and what happens to their newborns.
Tutwiler is produced by FRONTLINE PBS and The Marshall Project with Requisite Media and will broadcast on America ReFramed.