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Alabama AG Slams Film Exposing Prison Abuses

3/13/2026

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  • Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall criticized filmmaker Andrew Jarecki's The Alabama Solution for highlighting prison abuses and dismissed the Oscars invitation as publicity.
  • Marshall argued the film promotes a "soft on crime" agenda and ignores victims' perspectives.
  • Andrew Jarecki contends The Alabama Solution reveals a human rights disaster inside Alabama prisons and highlights inmates who documented abuses.
  • Jarecki described the governor's reforms as "absurd" given the state's dire prison conditions.