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“Tutwiler” Selected for Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

A new documentary from The Marshall Project and Frontline (PBS) offers a rare look at the lives of expectant mothers inside a notorious women’s prison.

Tutwiler,” the upcoming documentary from The Marshall Project and FRONTLINE (PBS) about a doula program for pregnant women inside Alabama’s notorious Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, has been chosen for this year’s Full Frame Documentary Film.

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