Truthout:
This article was co-published with Solitary Watch and The Appeal.
Grainy footage, filmed with contraband cell phones, forms the backbone of The Alabama Solution, a 2025 Oscar-nominated documentary that exposes the horrifying realities of life inside Alabama’s prisons. Throughout the film, shocking videos from incarcerated activists Raoul Poole, Robert Earl Council (who goes by the name Kinetik Justice), and Melvin Ray reveal how the Alabama Department of Corrections (the Alabama DOC) shields its prisons from outside scrutiny — and brutally retaliates against incarcerated people who try to make their conditions public.
Now, the Alabama DOC has further proved the underlying argument of the film. In mid-January, the three men featured in the film were abruptly taken from their facilities and transferred, via convoys, to an isolated unit in Kilby Correctional Facility, where they are being held in extreme solitary confinement, a lawyer whose team is in contact with the men said. Poole, Council, and Ray are currently the only people in the five-cell unit, according to David Gespass, an attorney who has represented Council in past litigation. He said they have not been given a reason for their transfer.
In a social media post, a co-producer of The Alabama Solution said that the transfer came after the men announced a nonviolent work strike in December. Continue reading
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