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Last month, after calls for a non-violent work strike, three brave men incarcerated in Alabama's prison system — Raoul Poole, Robert Earl Council, and Melvin Ray — of the documentary film "The Alabama Solution", were abruptly placed in solitary confinement in an effort to silence and intimidate them. Today came wonderful news: Raoul Poole, Robert Earl Council, and Melvin Ray have been successfully moved back to general population! 

Right now, people in Alabama’s prisons are dying at the highest rate of any system in the nation. Some are killed by violent guards, some from suicide or medical neglect, many more from overdoses of drugs sold to them by prison officials. The system that’s supposed to be rehabilitating them, is killing them. 
 
All of this is happening behind prison walls, shielded from public view. Still, incarcerated activists and whistleblowers have risked retaliation to expose the truth, documenting this shocking reality on contraband cell phones, as recently featured in the documentary The Alabama Solution. 

Please repost and share! Help us continue to shed light on this crisis, to safeguard the men in the film, and demand reform for the more than 20,000 people incarcerated in the State and the nearly 2 million nationwide.

Last month, after calls for a non-violent work strike, three brave men incarcerated in Alabama's prison system — Raoul Poole, Robert Earl Council, and Melvin Ray — of the documentary film "The Alabama Solution", were abruptly placed in solitary confinement in an effort to silence and intimidate them. Today came wonderful news: Raoul Poole, Robert Earl Council, and Melvin Ray have been successfully moved back to general population! Right now, people in Alabama’s prisons are dying at the highest rate of any system in the nation. Some are killed by violent guards, some from suicide or medical neglect, many more from overdoses of drugs sold to them by prison officials. The system that’s supposed to be rehabilitating them, is killing them. All of this is happening behind prison walls, shielded from public view. Still, incarcerated activists and whistleblowers have risked retaliation to expose the truth, documenting this shocking reality on contraband cell phones, as recently featured in the documentary The Alabama Solution. Please repost and share! Help us continue to shed light on this crisis, to safeguard the men in the film, and demand reform for the more than 20,000 people incarcerated in the State and the nearly 2 million nationwide.

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