Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system allegedly designed for rehabilitation.
Even if the documentary weren’t premiering at a moment when key aspects of the federal government are being dismantled seemingly at random, the title of
The HBO production begins in 2019 as the filmmakers attend a religious revival in the yard at Easterling Correctional Facility in Southeast Alabama. There’s music and BBQ and everybody looks happy and full of hope and community. There are, it turns out, optimistic communities within Easterling and the other Alabama prisons. They’re the secret cabals of inmates who have dedicated themselves to pushing back against the inhumanity of institutions that are at 200 percent inmate capacity with 1/3rd of the necessary staff, where punishment is the only objective and rehabilitation isn’t even a consideration. They’re pushing for change.
On the outside, the directors follow a tip from Melvin to investigate the beating and death of a prisoner under decidedly suspicious circumstances. They follow the deceased inmate’s grieving mother and crusading lawyer in search of justice at exactly the moment that the DoJ issues a report criticizing Alabama prisons. The institutions begin to push back.
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