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The Wetumpka State Penitentiary (WSP), originally known as the Alabama State Penitentiary, was the first state prison established in Alabama.〔"(Tutwiler Prison for Women )." Alabama Department of Corrections. Retrieved on September 5, 2010.〕 Built on the east bank of the Coosa River in Wetumpka, Alabama, it was nicknamed the "Walls of Alabama" or "Walls." For much of its existence the prison housed both men and women in separate quarters.〔"(ADOC History )." Alabama Department of Corrections. Retrieved on September 6, 2010.〕 The historic site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 1973.〔
==History==
On January 26, 1839, the Alabama Legislature, under Governor of Alabama Arthur P. Bagby, enacted a criminal code that authorized the creation of the first prison in Alabama. On August 21 of that year the state purchased a site along the Coosa River in Wetumpka, as the site was centrally located within the state. Bagby placed the first cornerstone of the prison in October of that year. By 1841 the $84,889 prison was completed. It had 208 cells and was surrounded by walls. The first prisoner entered the prison in 1842.〔 In 1922 Wetumpka became a women's prison.〔"("Old Women's Prison, Wetumpka." )" Alabama Department of Archives and History. Retrieved on September 6, 2010.〕
A fire destroyed a portion of the Wetumpka prison on January 23, 1931; within 40 days after the fire the facility was completely functional. After a fire at the Speigner prison on November 28, 1932, Wetumpka housed the convicts from Speigner until December 26, 1932, after temporary buildings at Speigner opened. In 1941 the prison was renamed to the Julia Tutwiler Prison; at that point it was mostly used for female prisoners. In December 1942 a new Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women opened, built less than a mile north of the Wetumpka State Penitentiary. The previous Wetumpka prison's usage decreased, and beginning in 1945 the State of Alabama began selling small parcels of the old prison land.〔 Several buildings survived to the last decades of the 20th century, but have since been demolished.〔
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