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.

On the Friday, March 6, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Alabama Solution” offers rare, unfiltered access inside Alabama’s prison system, exposing the stark human cost of mass incarceration.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama prison system has moved three well-known inmate activists who supported a 2022 prison strike and were featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary about the troubled ...

ELMORE, Ala. (AP) — Family and advocates of people incarcerated in Alabama prisons on Thursday said they want to keep a public spotlight on problems in state lockups and said inmates are planning ...