Alabama Solution Magnifying Glass

                What if one was harassed in prison for not joining the revolutionary cause?  Catch-22!  In Attica, on Sept. 9, 1971- 43 men (33 inmates + 10 correctional officers/employees) died.  There is precedent, newhires learn, about the dangers inherent in their line of work.

                ‘An eye for an eye’ was base historic precedent, but prisons have been deemed more humane than state-sanctioned murder of a murderer.  Is the death penalty for sex and sodomy of a minor, signed into law by Kay Ivey, governor of Alabama, just?  They’ll probably die in prison anyway.  There’s layers to the justice system.  Who would want known pederasts in their collective assembly?  Even prisoners who live with rats think it’s gross.

Andrew Jarecki, co-director of the “Alabama Solution” was on “The Joe Rogan Experience” #2475 on 3/27/26, promoting said film.   He spent much of the time reiterating the narrative.  Around an hour-ten he had talked about the Robert Earl Council case, again portraying it as a case of self-defense.  Again, he didn’t mention the assault rifle (he wasn’t pressed by Joe, who probably didn’t take the time to look into it like most people).  Why?  This is an integral aspect of the case, a part the jury would have heard, and a determining factor in the commission of the crime (actus reus) and its sentencing.  Omission is akin to lying.  Why not discuss it?  Your average citizen, acting in accordance with the law, could imagine self-defense (anyone with an older brother or sister). Not everyone could identify with the act of illegally buying or selling assault rifles, or stealing from the person who was selling said assault rifle because he was outnumbered and obviously intoxicated.  Because most people are intrinsically trusting of others they believe have no reason to lie to them.  Because the message appears humanitarian on the surface.  What else is he hiding (video)?

                Now, the guy REC killed may have been a total piece of shit junky degenerate, but you still have to talk about the gun in court.  Say what you really mean, not what the producers want.  You could tell the truth. “The junky got what was coming to him and I still think he deserved what he got, but I’ve learned better behavior in my time in prison.”  Not some bullshit about self-defense we know is a lie.
I mean, you and I know it’s a lie, but the public at large is easily duped into believing because they’ve got their own shit going on.  The narrative hinges on prisoner as victim and dismisses the facts surrounding why they are there in the first place.  Prisons are not meant to be especially nice places to be.  Penalty and punishment are deterrents to crime, and are meant to fit the nature of the criminal act.  For every condition called ‘cruel and unusual,’ I could point to a depraved, heinous, or perverse criminal act committed against the innocence of the victim and the victim’s family and community who have to cope.  Can you force remorse?  One can feel sorry for the consequence and not the action that caused/produced its result.  This is why deterrents are absolutely necessary in preventing the commission of criminal activity.  Perhaps reconsider murdering on a whim.  Or stealing someone else’s gun. 

To Kay Ivey, governor of Alabama, and the movie’s antagonist.  She says, “Alabama problems require Alabama solutions.”  This is in response the Department of Justice ruling that Alabama’s prisons violate the 8^th Amendment of the Constitution against cruel and unusual punishment.  They cited “rampant violence, sexual abuse, excessive force, severe understaffing and overcrowding, rape, homicide, excessive force by staff, high levels of contraband.”  Alabama was sued for “deliberate indifference” by DOJ. (Quotes paraphrased from A.I. / DOJ website)  The suit was filed December 7, 2020.  OK, so that’s the problem, what’s the solution? 

That same year, Alabama received a $1.9 billion lump sum for COVID relief (CARES Act + American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)) to be allocated for:

Health Response – testing, tracing, vaccination, purchasing PPE

Economic Assistance – Grants to small business, non-profit, and faith-based orgs.

Reimbursements for increased costs + equipment for healthcare facilities

Individual relief – rent + utility assistance.

Education – remote learning

Later, ARPA allowed for infrastructure projects

(Again, paraphrased AI for brevity)

Kay decided to spend $400 million, approximately 20% of the total funds, to build two new men’s mega-prison facilities (4,000 beds each) to update and upgrade the existing prison infrastructure found lacking in decency, eliminating the current 13 smaller state prisons that were found derelict.  Objectively, this is one solution to health concerns of the incarcerated, assuming improvements to overall conditions are made and met.  Also, objectively an infrastructure project.  Its opponents ultimately want to reduce prison populations through psychiatry.  “The state should instead invest resources in diverting people away from the criminal legal system and supporting drug treatment, mental health programming, and re-entry services,” says The Brennan Center for Justice. 

 

“…thoughtful Americans can be roughly divided between those who dismiss all forms of psychiatric practice as worthless or harmful, and those who regard it as a panacea for crime, unhappiness, political fanaticism, promiscuity, juvenile delinquency, and virtually every other moral, personal, and social ill of our time.

                The adherents of this exaggerated faith are, I believe, the larger and certainly the more influential group in shaping contemporary social policy. It is they who beat the drums for large-scale mental health programs and who use the prestige of a massive psychiatric establishment as a shield of illusion, concealing some ugly realities we would rather not face.”

Szasz, Thomas S., M.D., Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man. 1970. p. 79

 

                We trust Andrew Jarecki because he reveals some ugly realities, but he conceals others.  The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.  The people who watch this movie and agree with its premise have good intentions.  I think that our director is smarter than that and has ulterior motives.  You see, his father Henry Jarecki was himself a psychiatrist (amongst other things), who was affiliated with Jeffery Epstein.  He was accused of rape and sex trafficking.  The accuser was referred to H. Jarecki through Epstein.  Point being, the association puts father and son in a class of “1%ers,” otherwise known as plutocrats.  These are capitalists clothed as socialists; ultimately war-profiteers.  Wartime profits far exceed peacetime profits.  The United States is the world’s biggest economy (California alone is the 3^rd largest economy in the world!)  The greatest profits come from economic destabilization or exploitation of generative need for wartime expenses.  This has taken on a different form in the mostly peaceful States through gradual economic and ideological alterations.  Take the billions of dollars California spent to fix homelessness where homelessness increased in that same duration.  The release of violent criminals is one way to sow chaos and discord, or at least create a target for increased expenditures, put simply.  Expenditures that are ultimately reabsorbed by the legal and medical-psychiatric classes, at artificially inflated rates due to artificially inflated demand.  To see where this is going, observe California’s AB2624 (4/9/26) designed to criminalize investigative journalism that exposes fraud.

 

Here are examples of criminals who have been treated, “cured,” and released back into society:

8/22/25 Decarlos Dejuan Brown:  Murdered (stabbed, unprovoked) 23-year-old Ukrainian emigrant Iryna Zarutska on a train in Charlotte, NC.  He had 14 prior arrests, including armed robbery in 2015. 

4/11/26 Davy Spencer:  Murdered (stabbed, during fight) 21-year-old Marine, Danial Montano, in Wilmington, NC.  He had 60 charges, including multiple violent assaults on women.

Jonathan “Autumn Cordellione” Richardson: Strangled to death 11-month-old stepdaughter in Evansville, Indiana. The ACLU sued and won on her behalf for gender reassignment surgery (paid for by taxpayer).  Released after 25/55 years served.  Subsequently started an OnlyFans account.

 

                This is a good example of ACLU priorities.  Consider that while debatable in more liberal states, I would go out on a limb and assume that Indiana voters/taxpayers would not choose to have their money go towards the gender reassignment surgery of an inmate.  This unpopular and undemocratic litigation.  Consider also that this is subterfuge for Richardson to be transferred to a women’s prison.  Consider how this person might bring increased “cruel and unusual” conditions for the existing women’s prisoners.  (Do women prisoners have more lenient conditions for release?)  Was this person psychiatrically cured by her transition?  Guess we'll find out!

American Civil Liberties Union and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) were plaintiffs in opposition of Kay Ivey utilizing COVID funds for prison upgrades.  They argued that this money should be spent on expanding Medicaid, affordable housing, or direct health response (listed earlier).  As I hypothesize, these expanded “social services” can be more easily exploited by legal and corporate-medical institutions and destabilize communities who bear the economic burden and are tasked with reabsorbing the released individual.  Therefore it is beneficial to the unions of legal experts (profiteers) to present Alabama’s prison system as broken and in need of psychiatric reform over continued incarceration.

Consider how this fits into the framework of the Affordable Care Act “Obamacare” of 2012.  While it drastically increased the amount of people covered by insurance, it did so through threat of financial penalty and failed promises of “keep your plan/doctor.”  Premiums have also doubled since 2013 and the national debt surged by hundreds of billions.  Why did costs increase?  Take the expansion of Medicaid:  Insurance companies used to compete in a free(r) market.  While certain people with “pre-existing conditions” were sometimes precluded from private insurance because the financial burden would have been too great for one or both parties, excluding this minority, costs were low enough for the general public to bear due to competition amongst insurers.  Medicaid is essential “government managed” healthcare.  They are not under the same strictures as are private insurers because their money is obtained through mandate or coercion.  Therefore it can be poorly managed.  Therefore it is more easily exploited through fraudulent expenditures to the tune of about $80 billion annually (tip-of-the-iceberg, probably).  This would not happen so easily in the private sector where fraudsters would be immediately excluded from participating.  This politico-corporate alliance is what artificially inflates costs to the general consumer since the private sector is now granted certain benefits (major insurers with 1,000% stock increases between then and now vs. 250% general average) for participation. You see, direct payments could have been made to people in need – those with pre-existing conditions and others, but that wouldn’t benefit the power of the bureaucratic structure enough.

Now (4/22/2026) the SPLC has been indicted by the FBI – exactly to my point.  The group was formerly famous for having a statue of the Ten Commandments removed from the Alabama Judicial Building in 2002.  I only highlight this case because it speaks to a deeper issue.  Where do our ideals of Justice come from?  I think they want to statue removed because it points to the fact that talking about Justice is akin to talking about God.  In some ways the nature of Justice is ineffable (metaphysical) so it can only be talked about, and the SPLC benefits from avoiding clear definitions.  If “thou shalt not steal,” were chiseled on a giant chunk of granite they were to look at every morning on their way to “work,” it might bring offense!  And this ‘separation of church and state’ thing is in many ways merely a façade, because how does one hold discourse on the nature of Justice without discussing the nature of God?  Obviously, The Ten Commandments points to a certain religious affiliation, but it is still a foundational text.  Plato’s Republic is also a foundational and insightful dialogue on the nature of Justice.  Thing is, even an observant pagan could identify the nature of cause and effect.  And perhaps we don’t need a formal justice system at all since Justice will be meted by man and nature regardless.  But we have what we have because it has been determined less barbaric than vigilante justice.  The continuous over-expansion of these formalized systems only serves to obfuscate (as an object hidden in a bureau) what ought to be evident.  ACLU, SPLC, Jarecki, et al aren’t ethicists, they’re profiteers.