Andrew Jarecki’s most powerful film since “Capturing the Friedmans” is an exposé of the systemic inhumanity of the American prison system. Filmed over five years, in and around the Easterling Correctional Facility in Southeast Alabama, it’s a scalding portrait of life on the inside that becomes a muckraking murder mystery. Following in the incendiary footsteps of films like “Attica,” “13th,” and “The Farm: Angola, USA,” Jarecki reveals a culture of sanctified lawlessness, much of it chronicled by the prisoners on contraband cell phones. And the way the movie peels off layers of a cover-up becomes as dramatic as the crimes it’s about. —Owen Gleiberman
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