A camera crew visited an Alabama prison in 2019 to film an event. There was live music, barbecued food, and prayer. By all accounts, it seemed like a joyful day. But one inmate shared a message to the filmmakers – there’s a reason they were invited with their cameras that day, and everything was not as it seemed at the correctional facility. In his words, the prison was not “fit for human society.” Soon after, other men spoke to the crew off camera, sharing the horrors they’ve witnessed inside the prison’s walls, away from the public eye. Thus began a mutli-year investigation into Alabama’s prison system, filled with footage shot on contraband cell phones by inmates themselves to show what was happening on the inside. Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman, co-directors and producers of ‘The Alabama Solution,’ join “Forbes True Crime” to discuss their documentary that shines a light on what is happening behind bars in Alabama.
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