Oscar Watch 2026 – The Alabama Solution

This documentary takes you inside the Alabama prison system – one of the most dangerous in the United States. The film consists of interviews with the family members of prisoners, on-site film crew footage, as well as clandestine footage from the prisoners themselves, taken with cell phones smuggled into the prison.

The film is labeled a documentary, but it could easily be included under the category of horror. The conditions within the prison, as documented by the prisoners themselves is absolutely horrifying and undeniable. And yet the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) denies what is clearly evident in the presented footage. Follow the lives of several individual prisoners as they appeal the system, are targeted for it, beaten, murdered, systematically denied parole of which they are wholly deserving, and starved out during a peaceful protest.

A rude awakening for anyone who doesn’t fully comprehend the system or the forces of total corruption that are responsible for it. Not for the faint of heart. Scenes of carnage and the disturbing incidents which are caught on camera are beyond sickening. And yet, to this day, nothing has been done about it. Perhaps this film will be the catalyst to desperately needed changes within the prison system.