"The Alabama Solution" is one of the most powerful exposés of the inhumanity of the American prison system I've ever seen. Directed by Andrew Jarecki ("Capturing the Friedmans," "The Jinx") and Charlotte Kaufman,

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system allegedly designed for rehabilitation.

Jinx' and 'Capturing the Friedmans' director Andrew Jarecki returns with prison documentary 'The Alabama Solution.' IndieWire talks to the filmmaker.

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman talk about their documentary, “The Alabama Solution,” that explores the terrible conditions of Alabama’s prison system through leaked cellphone video from inmates while at the L.A. Times Studios @ Sundance Film Festival presented by Chase Sapphire Reserve.

Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman Screenwriters: Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman, Page Marsella Logline: Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America's deadliest prison systems.

"Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in America's deadliest prison system," reads the logline for the HBO-backed documentary "The Alabama Solution." But that does not begin to describe this powerful and extremely necessary call-to-action.