The Alabama Solution: A Film Screening & Community Discussion

Join us 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 Pr*son 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, we’ll hold a community conversation with local advocates and organizers who are working toward decarceration, abolition, and repair. Together we’ll explore what accountability can look like in a system built on punishment, and how communities can resist carceral profiteering and state neglect.

6:45 p.m. – Film screening begins (approximately 115 minutes)
8:45 p.m. – Community Q&A
9:00 p.m. – Closing and Connection time

Directed by Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman, 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.

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.

Community members, educators, students, justice advocates, and anyone who believes in the urgent need to transform how we understand punishment and safety.

• Please let us know if you require accommodations such as captioning or accessible seating.
• Content warning: contains depictions and discussion of state violence and incarceration.
• Light food and beverages will be provided.

Collective Justice in partnership with Look2Justice.

For questions, contact [email protected]

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Central Cinema, 1411 21st Avenue, Seattle, United States

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