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This story was published in collaboration with Truthout and the Appeal. Grainy footage, filmed with contraband cell phones, forms the backbone of The Alabama Solution, a 2025 Oscar-nominated documentary that exposes the horrifying realities of life inside Alabama’s prisons. Throughout the film, shocking videos from incarcerated activists Raoul Poole, Robert Earl Council (who goes by […]

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Alabama Department of Corrections

After Exposing Prison Horrors for an Oscar-Nominated Film, Incarcerated Whistleblowers Are Moved to Solitary

The Deadly Consequences of Mental Illness in Prison…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Seven Days in Solitary [11/16/2022]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/22/22]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/28/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/13/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/29/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [4/8/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/25/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [3/4/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/25/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [2/4/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/21/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [9/16/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/24/18]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/02/2017]

Seven Days in Solitary [5/15/2016]

Prison Labor Strike in Alabama: “We Will No Longer Contribute to Our Own Oppression”