In October 2021, the Legislature approved a $1.3 billion plan to build two 4,000-bed prisons - in Elmore and Escambia counties. The largest prison in Alabama, in Limestone County, has about 2,000 beds ...

The St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church hosted a screening of the film on Sunday. A producer said that event was just one of 11 happening around the country over the weekend alone.

The Gov. Kay Ivey Correctional Complex in Elmore County, a 4,000-bed men’s prison, will open next October instead of May, ...

HBO’s new documentary exposes Alabama’s broken prison system through footage secretly recorded by inmates who risked their lives to tell the truth.

FLORENCE — Civil Rights attorney Hank Sherrod said he hopes Alabamians will watch the HBO documentary depicting conditions inside the Alabama Prison System and reach out to their legislators to take ...

Researchers at Columbia University say the use of prison labor in Hyundai’s supply chain is driving down the wages of ...

The Alabama Solution (now streaming on HBO Max) is a documentary primed to make a difference. After a decade working on the film, directors Andrew Jarecki (whose filmography includes hard-hitting docs ...

Documentaries serve as a flashlight in a dark room – casting light on subjects, people, things, that you may not be privy to. And when a documentary is done with journalistic integrity, it can be as ...

“The Alabama Solution” is one of the most powerful exposés of the inhumanity of the American prison system I’ve ever seen. Directed by Andrew Jarecki (“Capturing the Friedmans,” “The Jinx”) and ...