An Alabama pastor is working to extend the Oscar buzz and attention from a documentary into meaningful reform behind prison walls across the state. Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow, an activist based in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama is headed into an unusual week where Hollywood buzz, unlikely political alliances, and a searing prison documentary are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Hollywood’s stars walk the red carpet for the 98 th Academy Awards tonight, one nominee will not be a love story or epic ...

A new HBO documentary airing Friday pulls back the curtain on one of the country's most controversial prison systems, and it doesn't hold back. "The Alabama Solution," from directors Andrew Jarecki ...

Family members of state inmates wore red T-shirts with the words “Alabama Dept. of Corruptions” to the State House on ...

When Hollywood’s stars walk the red carpet for the 98 th Academy Awards tonight, one nominee will not be a love story or epic drama but the tragedy repeated daily inside Alabama’s overcrowded prisons.

SELMA, Ala. (WSFA) - “The Alabama Solution” shows problems in the Alabama prison system from the inside: whether it be allegations of overcrowding, rampant violence, the influx of illegal drugs, or ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Oscar buzz is putting a national spotlight on Alabama’s prison system. The Academy Award nominations are out, and one documentary with deep Alabama ties is in the running for ...

*Director Andrew Jarecki, known for “The Jinx,” takes audiences deep into the walls of Alabama’s prisons in his latest documentary, “The Alabama Solution,” currently streaming on HBO and nominated for ...

Source: HBO / HBO The prison industrial complex in the United States is one that has a murky place in the nation’s conscious. A look inside the nation’s fifth-largest prison system in the state of ...

FLORENCE — Civil Rights attorney Hank Sherrod said he hopes Alabamians will watch the HBO documentary depicting conditions inside the Alabama Prison System and reach out to their legislators to take ...