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Story summary
- The Alabama Solution, an HBO documentary, is Oscar-nominated and exposes overcrowding and violence in Alabama prisons.
- Raoul Poole, Robert Earl Council, and Melvin Ray (filmmakers) captured footage with contraband phones and now face extreme solitary confinement.
- Council previously suffered severe injuries in a 2021 beating by correctional officers, a retaliation for his activism.
- Jeremy Busby (journalist) has reported similar retaliation.
- The documentary highlights disparities in whistleblower treatment within U.S. prisons.
