Join us for a screening of the 2025 documentary film, The Alabama Solution, directed by Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman. After the screening, an in-depth panel discussion will explore labor and mass incarceration, the resilience required to navigate reentry, and what business leaders can do to positively influence outcomes for all affected by the justice system.
About The Alabama Solution
Set inside America’s deadliest prison system, The Alabama Solution gives audiences a rare, unfiltered view of America’s carceral crisis that resonates far beyond the South.
Through investigative reporting that includes footage shot on contraband cell phones and insider accounts from former prison officials and others, the film exposes shocking brutality and institutional corruption in a secretive system that has grown to consume a quarter of Alabama’s state budget.
Featured Speakers
- Clara Brooks, Free Alabama Movement Board Member; Sister of Melvin “Bennu” Ray (featured in the film)
- Dominic Dupont, Research Assistant at the Center for Justice at Columbia University
- Alex Duran, Co-producer of The Alabama Solution
- Dr. Geraldine Downey, Director of the Center for Justice and Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology at Columbia University
- Damon Phillips, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia Business School; Robert Steinberg Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
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This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Justice at Columbia University, HBO Documentary Films, the Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics and the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change at Columbia Business School.
