The Alabama Solution

For six years, incarcerated men in Alabama prisons used contraband cell phones to film what the state works hard to keep hidden. What they documented is one of America's deadliest prison systems.

The investigation is built around footage from inmates Robert Earl Council and Melvin Ray, co-founders of the Free Alabama Movement. The grainy videos reveal facilities operating at 200% capacity with one-third required staff—overcrowded warehouses where 1,380 people have died since 2019. Governor Kay Ivey insists the state needs an "Alabama solution" rather than federal intervention.

A damning portrait of a system built on indifference, where brutality goes unpunished and those who expose the truth face retaliation.