When Hollywood’s stars walk the red carpet for the 98 th Academy Awards tonight, one nominee will not be a love story or epic drama but the tragedy repeated daily inside Alabama’s overcrowded prisons.
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Days before the documentary “The Alabama Solution” was nominated for an Academy Award, the three main ...
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman also share how viewers can become even more educated about America's prison systems after watching the documentary. By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards ...
February 13 - Israel has taken steps to help settlers acquire land in the occupied West Bank and widen its powers in parts of the territory where Palestinians have some self-rule - measures they said ...
This article was co-published with Solitary Watch and Truthout. Grainy footage, filmed with contraband cell phones, forms the backbone of The Alabama Solution, a 2025 Oscar-nominated documentary that ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The HBO documentary “The Alabama Solution” offers an inside look at the horrific conditions within Alabama state prisons. Melvin Ray, an inmate, is featured in the ...
A documentary chronicling Alabama’s notorious prison system has dropped on HBO. “The Alabama Solution” is a nearly two-hour look at the state’s maximum-security lockups, using footage from inside ...
On Jan. 22, “The Alabama Solution” was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony on March 15. Read our Q&A with the ...
Though Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman are the directors, inmates with smuggled phones are important collaborators. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...
Indictments of our dehumanizing prison system don’t get much more conscience-piercing than what’s revealed in “The Alabama Solution,” a shattering documentary from Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman ...
It’s hard to watch “The Alabama Solution,” the new documentary from directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman, without bristling with anger. Filmed over five years, the film is composed mainly of ...