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From The Creator Of ‘The Jinx’ Comes Shocking Expose Of Alabama Prison Conditions: “The System Is Really In Free Fall” – Sundance
'The Jinx' director Andrew Jarecki exposes shocking conditions in Alabama's prisons in the Sundance premiere documentary 'The Alabama Solution.'
The documentary project began with an invitation to the filmmakers to attend an open-air barbecue and revival meeting held annually at some Alabama state prisons, including the Easterling Correctional Facility in Clio. Melvin Ray and Robert Earl “Kinetik Justice” Council are among the incarcerated men who provided videos documenting living conditions in Alabama prisons. Their footage showed multiple prisoners in what appeared to be a drug-addled stupor, flooding in corridors, men sleeping on floors or in barracks conditions, and beatings routinely administered by guards.
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