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.

Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers.

The new documentary "The Alabama Solution" uses cell phone footage to reveal shocking conditions inside Alabama prisons.

A still from The Perfect Neighbor by Geeta Gandbhir, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

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

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.

Directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman sat down at our studio in Park City to discuss their remarkable investigative documentary.

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.

It's a look at horrific prison conditions, detailed by prisoners on contraband cell phones, that becomes a muckraking murder mystery. “The Alabama Solution” is one of the most powerful ...

Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers. The result is “The Alabama

"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.