The Alabama Solution: Prison Life Exposed

0:00I'm Corey and this is your Pulse of the City, Birmingham News Today. The Oscars are just days away and one documentary called The Alabama Solution might take home a top award. It dies into Alabama's troubled prison system, using raw footage mostly shot on contraband cell phones by inmates themselves to show daily life behind. Bars This week, Birmingham hosted a screening at the Carbure Theatre to spotlight these issues. Co-producer Beth Shelburn stressed that everyone shares a duty to grasp what people in the justice system endure, though the film can't cover every. Problem-like poor health care, or mental health crises, and made Danny Dandridge helped make it happen by secretly recording dangerous moments inside, risking his life to expose killings and cover-ups by, prison staff. He called it more than a movie, it's his real fight for freedom for himself and others. Viewers at the screening left, moved and fired up. Even woman described it as heart-wrenching, highlighting unpaid labor that feels like

1:00modern slavery, with the state profiting off inmates working in. Public Shelburn says, real change is still far off, blaming state leaders for falling short. She invited Governor Kay Ivey and Attorney General Steve Marshall to a Los Angeles screening before the Oscars, but they turned it down. This episode is brought to you in partnership with our sponsor. If earbuds fall out when you sleep, this is for you. A pillow with built-in sound, S-O-L-I, solelypillow.com