By Alabama Public Radio
Montgomery, AL – The Alabama corrections system has moved about 320 of its female prisoners from one lock-up in Louisiana to another one. They've been housed at a private facility in southwest Louisiana, but state prison commissioner Richard Allen says they've been transferred to the J-B Evans Correctional Center in Newellton, Louisiana. That's on the Louisiana-Mississippi line. Allen says that brings the inmates about two and a half hours closer to Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka. The state has a contract with L-C-S Correctional Services to house the inmates to reduce that prison's overcrowded conditions.