Sundance doc shows horrifying conditions in Alabama prisons

Sundance movie review: 'Alabama Solution' an upsetting, inspiring doc
"The Alabama Solution," which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, is a documentary about abuses in the Alabama prison system. Though upsetting, advocacy from inmates themselves proves inspiring.
With leaked footage from the inside, Sundance doc shows horrifying conditions in Alabama prisons
Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers.
With shocking secret footage, prison doc ‘The Alabama Solution’ should outrage the nation
Directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman sat down at our studio in Park City to discuss their remarkable investigative documentary.
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Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system allegedly designed for rehabilitation.
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Alabama’s deadly prisons exposed through leaked prison cellphone video in ‘The Alabama Solution’
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman talk about their documentary, “The Alabama Solution,” that explores the terrible conditions of Alabama’s prison system through leaked cellphone video from inmates while at the L.A. Times Studios @ Sundance Film Festival presented by Chase Sapphire Reserve.
‘The Alabama Solution’: Sundance Review
Smuggled smartphones provide a shocking insider’s perspective on Alabama’s prison system Many Americans recognise the injustices within the country’s prison system, but the case has rarely been laid out as comprehensively as it is in The Alabama Solution.
‘The Alabama Solution' Review: Andrew Jarecki's Powerful Exposé of a Prison System Where Sanctified Lawlessness Is the Law
"The Alabama Solution" is one of the most powerful exposés of the inhumanity of the American prison system I've ever seen.
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