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‘The Alabama Solution’ Review: Andrew Jarecki’s Powerful Exposé of a Prison System Where Sanctified Lawlessness Is the Law
It's a look at horrific prison conditions, detailed by prisoners on contraband cell phones, that becomes a muckraking murder mystery.
Directed by Andrew Jarecki(“Capturing the Friedmans,” “The Jinx”) and Charlotte Kaufman, the movie is a scalding portrait of life on the inside that exerts a grip worthy of a thriller. In the case of Easterling, which is run like a totalitarian work farm, it’s all part of how the system is organized to shut down the prisoners’ voices, to make sure that even the most glaring breaches of law remain hidden. The injustice of it all — the murder, the silence, the capitalist ethos that goes back to the slave era — is part of a larger racket, presided over by the Alabama governor, Kay Ivey, who’s so jaunty about the wonder of her state’s prison system that she should be played, in the Hollywood version of this story, by Kathy Bates.
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