"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.

"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 and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system allegedly designed for rehabilitation.