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'The Alabama Department of Corrections is a drug cartel'

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November 17, 2025

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The Alabama prison system functions like a modern-day plantation: overcrowded, understaffed prisons like Bullock Correctional Facility run on forced labor, violence, and deliberate neglect. In this episode of "Rattling the Bars," host Mansa Musa speaks with journalist Matthew Vernon Whalan about his book "Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an American Prison," and about the systematic corruption and inhumane horrors endured daily by incarcerated people in Alabama.

Producer / Videographer / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino

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