Charlotte Kaufman co-directs the harrowing Alabama prison doc headed for HBO and an Oscar campaign. "You say democracy dies in darkness. People die in darkness," Jarecki tells IndieWire.

"The Alabama Solution" is one of the most powerful exposés of the inhumanity of the American prison system I've ever seen. Directed by Andrew Jarecki ("Capturing the Friedmans," "The Jinx") and Charlotte Kaufman,

Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman Screenwriters: Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman, Page Marsella Logline: Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America's deadliest prison systems.

"Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in America's deadliest prison system," reads the logline for the HBO-backed documentary "The Alabama Solution." But that does not begin to describe this powerful and extremely necessary call-to-action.