The documentary premiered Friday night on HBO Max and shows a six-year look inside Alabama's notorious prison system.

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The late female serial killer Aileen Wuornos was adopted by Arlene Pralle and her husband, Robert Pralle, in 1991. Here is ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The documentary The Alabama Solution, which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, uses video captured inside Alabama’s prisons to show violence, forced ...

At least 15 people have died in pretrial detention just this year at Texas’s notorious Harris County Jail. Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our ...

"The Alabama Solution" – a 115-minute documentary from Emmy-winning filmmaker Andrew Jarecki ("The Jinx") – lifts the lid on Alabama’s brutal prison system. Described as "required viewing" by Sundance ...

Documentaries serve as a flashlight in a dark room – casting light on subjects, people, things, that you may not be privy to. And when a documentary is done with journalistic integrity, it can be as ...

HBO’s new documentary exposes Alabama’s broken prison system through footage secretly recorded by inmates who risked their lives to tell the truth.

The new short film Criminal highlights the injustices of the criminal legal system with a look at how for-profit bail preys on the poor and mentally ill. We’re joined by three contributors to the film ...

On a recorded jail call in 1991, Aileen Wuornos told Tyria Moore she’d admit “everything” to keep Moore out of trouble. A new ...