Prisoners Who Appeared in HBO Documentary “The Alabama Solution” Are Being Punished and Isolated

The Alabama Solution.

I don’t normally write about higher profile prisoners opting instead to interview those prisoners who no one has heard of and have never accessed journalists before, for whatever reason. I don’t feel I’m contributing much unless I’m finding people I feel are really successfully hidden.

Recently, however, and especially in the last week, on the heels of the major HBO documentary about the horrendous conditions in Alabama’s prisons and the struggle for freedom and human rights inside of them...