In mid-January, the three men featured in the film were abruptly taken from their facilities and transferred, via convoys, to an isolated unit in Kilby Correctional Facility, where they are being held in extreme solitary confinement, a lawyer whose team is in contact with the men said. In the film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2025 and was released on HBO in October, Poole, Council, and Ray’s videos and interviews depict a side of Alabama prisons that officials would rather keep hidden: filthy and flooded living spaces, people sleeping all over the floor in overcrowded dorms, officers asleep at their posts, and forlorn eyes peering through the food slots of heavy solitary confinement cell doors. In an interview in the documentary, they tell the filmmakers how the Alabama DOC responded to their activism by sending them each to solitary confinement for about five years, and classifying them as enemies so they could not remain in the same institution.
Author: Katie Rose Quandt
Published at: 2026-01-26 21:35:31
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