Screening and Conversation: Tutwiler, a film about incarcerated mothers

231 Mell Street,Auburn AL 36849

24 October, 2022

Description

The Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project (APAEP) and Auburn University Libraries invite you to a community conversations about incarceration in Alabama. We will watch the documentary film, Tutwiler, and join in conversation with people impacted by Alabama’s incarceration system, educators, health care providers, and scholars. Tutwiler (2020; 34 minutes), directed by Elaine McMillion Sheldon, introduces us to Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, located in Wetumpka, Alabama, were, each year, between 40 to 50 pregnant people are incarcerated. In this Marshall Project and Frontline (PBS) documentary film we accompany members of Alabama’s Prison Birth Project, a volunteer-organized doula program, as they support incarcerated women through pregnancy, delivery, and the painful separation from their newborn children one or two days after giving birth.