Alabama prison inmate turned chaplain, employee arrested in separate contraband incidents

A state prison volunteer chaplain and an Alabama Department of Corrections employee were arrested this week in separate ...

Documentary on Alabama prison system nominated for Academy Award

A documentary about Alabama’s prison system is in the running to win an Oscar for Best Documentary.
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‘The Alabama Solution’ Documentarians on Collaborating With Incarcerees to Expose the Horrors of Alabama’s Prison System

During a Q&A (which you can watch below) at the recent SCAD Savannah Film Festival (where The Alabama Solution film was featured on the fest’s annual Docs to Watch panel), Jarecki said that while in ...
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“The Alabama Solution:” New Doc Exposes Disturbing Conditions in AL Prisons

Episcopal Bishop of Washington Mariann Budde talks about finding moments of courage in a world full of fear. Space Shuttle Commander Eileen Collins discusses her amazing career, which is the subject ...

U.S. Prisons Are Black Sites, Kept Secret from the Public - Filmmakers and Journalists Can Change That (Opinion)

The directors of "The Alabama Solution" ask: since we can find no incident in the past twenty years in which a journalist has ...

Harvesting organs from Alabama prison inmates could soon be a felony

Medical examiners who take a person’s organs without family consent would face 10 years in prison and a $15,000 fine.
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‘The Alabama Solution' Documentarians on Collaborating With Incarcerees to Expose the Horrors of Alabama's Prison System

For filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, who is best known for his Oscar-winning documentary Capturing the Friedmans and Emmy-winning docuseries The Jinx, a 2019 family trip to Montgomery, Alabama, unexpectedly ...