#solitary-confinement

#solitary-confinement

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.

The book was announced 11 days after the former French president was released from prison while he appeals against his conviction for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. In prison there is nothing to see, and nothing to do, he writes in an extract, which suggests the account will be more his musings from his solitary confinement cell than a broader observation of the overcrowded and crisis-hit French prison system.

Video footage shows staff members checking on other inmates while paying little attention to Bryant. This evidence contradicts the jail's claims about his care.

Every elected official should ensure corrections officers have necessary tools to do their jobs. Zeldin vows to support union members and repeal HALT Act if elected.