Nov 24 from 5:30pm to 9pm PST
Central Cinema, 1411 21st Avenue

Join Look 2 Justice and Collective Justice for a powerful screening of The Alabama Solution (2025), a new documentary that lays bare the violent realities and exploitative labor practices inside Alabama’s prison system. Featuring footage filmed by incarcerated men themselves, the film brings us face to face with a hidden crisis of overcrowding, forced labor, and systemic brutality. It also reveals the resilience and humanity of those who survive these conditions.

After the screening, there will be a community conversation with local advocates and organizers who are working toward decarceration and repair. Together participants will explore what accountability can look like in a system built on punishment, and how communities can resist carceral profiteering and state neglect.

📽 Event Schedule

5:45 p.m. – Film screening begins (approximately 115 minutes)
8:45 p.m. – Community Q&A
9:00 p.m. – Closing and Connection time

💬 About the Film

Directed by Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman, The Alabama Solution draws on documentation from inside Alabama’s prisons to expose the conditions the U.S. Department of Justice has described as cruel and unusual. The documentary follows several incarcerated storytellers as they navigate violence, hope, and survival, revealing how mass incarceration has become the state’s most profitable industry.

✊ Why This Matters

This film challenges the belief that prisons are solutions. It asks us to confront how incarceration sustains cycles of racialized poverty, violence, and neglect. By centering the words and footage of incarcerated people, The Alabama Solution calls on us to listen, reckon, and act.

Tickets and information here: The Alabama Solution: A Film Screening & Community Discussion Tickets, Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM | Eventbrite