So many people showed up Wednesday for the quarterly meeting of the Alabama Joint Prison Oversight Committee that lawmakers had to find a bigger committee room.

The oversized crowd was spurred in part by a bombshell HBO documentary The Alabama Solution that revealed the conditions within the walls of the Alabama Department of Corrections with a focus on the excessive force of correctional officers.

“There is a culture within the system when it comes to excessive force and civil rights abuses that are not only allowed, but enabled and encouraged,” said State Rep. Chris England, D-Tuscaloosa.

England referenced the documentary in singling out correctional officer Roderick Gadson, who the film pinpoints as the guard responsible for the death of inmate Steven Davis. ADOC has contended that

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