"Grainy footage, filmed with contraband cell phones, forms the backbone of The Alabama Solution, a 2025 Oscar-nominated documentary that exposes the horrifying realities of life inside Alabama's prisons. Throughout the film, shocking videos from incarcerated activists Raoul Poole, Robert Earl Council (who goes by the name Kinetik Justice), and Melvin Ray reveal how the Alabama Department of Corrections (the Alabama DOC) shields its prisons from outside scrutiny - and brutally retaliates against incarcerated people who try to make their conditions public."
"In mid-January, the three men featured in the film were abruptly taken from their facilities and transferred, via convoys, to an isolated unit in Kilby Correctional Facility, where they are being held in extreme solitary confinement, a lawyer whose team is in contact with the men said. Poole, Council, and Ray are currently the only people in the five-cell unit, according to David Gespass, an attorney who has represented Council in past litigation."
Grainy contraband cell-phone footage filmed by incarcerated activists Raoul Poole, Robert Earl Council (Kinetik Justice), and Melvin Ray documents filthy, flooded living spaces, overcrowded dorms with people sleeping on floors, officers asleep on duty, and people visible only through heavy solitary food slots. The Alabama Department of Corrections routinely shields facilities from outside scrutiny and retaliates against those who publicize conditions. In mid-January, Poole, Council, and Ray were abruptly transported to an isolated five-cell unit at Kilby Correctional Facility and are being kept in extreme solitary confinement as the only occupants. Their legal counsel reports no official reason for the transfer.
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