MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) -- At a meeting today of the Joint Prison Committee, leaders discussed the drug problems, abuse and need for accountability inside Alabama’s prison system.

These are well documented in “The Alabama Solution,” an HBO film that leaders say is proof of the need for reform in prisons.

Earnestine Council is the mother of Robert Earl Council, an inmate in The Alabama Solution documentary. After seeing what her son faces with her own eyes, she wants to see leaders take action.

“It brought light to a dark place," said Council. "You can always speak something, but this was not only speaking it with the mouth, but they were able to see for themselves what is behind them walls.”

“I can’t, with good conscience, tell anybody that we’re making progress, when they see that," R

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