When filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman visited Easterling Correctional Facility in 2019, it appeared at first to be a happy occasion as volunteers brought the incarcerated men barbecue and led them in gospel songs.

But it didn’t take long before men began to approach the directors off camera with whispers: terrible things are going on inside these walls. A guard soon orders the crew to stop filming, expressing discomfort with the producers talking to inmates without an officer present.

That is the closest Jarecki and Kaufman’s cameras got to Alabama prisons, but that didn’t stop their film—just the opposite.

Premiering today at the Capri Theatre and more than 50 other locations nationwide, “The Alabama Solution” chronicles six years of Jarecki and Kaufman exploring life in

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