The Alabama Solution
The Alabama Solution
Inside one of the nation's deadliest prison systems, incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in this Oscar-nominated documentary.
In 2019, filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman visit an Alabama prison to film a revival meeting. Off camera, incarcerated men whisper a message: terrible things are going on here and being kept secret. This sparks an immersive six-year investigation to discover the reality behind the walls of one of the nation's deadliest prison systems.
Composed primarily of contraband cell phone footage taken by incarcerated men at Easterling and other facilities across the state, The Alabama Solution exposes the inhumane conditions, systemic injustice and brutal treatment of those behind bars in the Alabama prison system, told through their own voices and their own stories. The film expertly weaves the pressing issues of prison privatization, inmate slave labor, abuse of power, government corruption and extreme violence together to help audiences on the outside get a real sense of the abhorrent conditions of our fellow human beings.
D: Andrew Jarecki & Charlotte Kaufman, US, 2025, 1h55m
Programmed in collaboration with the Dartmouth Prison Justice Initiative. Discussion follows.
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