"The Alabama Solution," which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, is a documentary about abuses in the Alabama prison system. Though upsetting, advocacy from inmates themselves proves inspiring.

Jinx' and 'Capturing the Friedmans' director Andrew Jarecki returns with prison documentary 'The Alabama Solution.' IndieWire talks to the filmmaker.

Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman Screenwriters: Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman, Page Marsella Logline: Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America's deadliest prison systems.

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman talk about their documentary, “The Alabama Solution,” that explores the terrible conditions of Alabama’s prison system through leaked cellphone video from inmates while at the L.A. Times Studios @ Sundance Film Festival presented by Chase Sapphire Reserve.

Smuggled smartphones provide a shocking insider’s perspective on Alabama’s prison system Many Americans recognise the injustices within the country’s prison system, but the case has rarely been laid out as comprehensively as it is in The Alabama Solution.

Co-directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufmann's striking new documentary “The Alabama Solution” lands with such force.

"The Alabama Solution" is one of the most powerful exposés of the inhumanity of the American prison system I've ever seen. Directed by Andrew Jarecki ("Capturing the Friedmans," "The Jinx") and Charlotte Kaufman,