Screening & Discussion: The Alabama Solution, with Galaxy Gives & LEAH

Join LEAH and Galaxy Gives for a screening of The Alabama Solution, followed by a community conversation on criminal injustice, modern-day slavery, prison conditions, and the role of jailhouse lawyers in protecting our people.
This gathering will use the film as an entry point to discuss what incarcerated communities are facing across the country — and how community members, legal practitioners, and jailhouse lawyers can work together to expose harm, demand accountability, and build more just systems.
The Alabama Solution gives us an opportunity to look directly at what the prison system tries to hide: the ongoing criminal injustice, forced labor, abuse, neglect, and modern-day slavery impacting incarcerated communities across the country.
This screening is not only about awareness. It is about responsibility. After the film, LEAH will host a discussion with local jailhouse lawyers and community members on how we protect our people now — through legal empowerment, court accountability, community organizing, public witness, and stronger relationships between jailhouse lawyers, practitioners, and the communities they come from.

The Legal Empowerment & Advocacy Hub (LEAH) was founded in 2019 with the mission to ensure isolated communities have access to legal empowerment, education and peacebuilding.
Jhody Polk is the founder of the Legal Empowerment & Advocacy Hub (LEAH). LEAH was founded in 2019 with the mission to ensure isolated communities have access to legal empowerment, education and peacebuilding. LEAH’s first program was the Jailhouse Lawyers Initiative (JLI), housed at the Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at NYU School of Law. Jhody is a 2025 David Prize Winner and a 2024 Global Freedom Fellow. She is recognized as a formerly Incarcerated Jailhouse Lawyer, a Community Paralegal and Community Peacebuilder.
Galaxy Gives supports leaders and organizations building power, narratives, and solutions to advance justice, heal our communities, and transform our future.
Alelur "Alex" Duran serves as Program Director at Galaxy Gives, where he leads the foundation's criminal justice reform portfolio. He sits on the boards of Freedom Reads, the Center for Community Alternatives, and the Medical Justice Alliance — organizations dedicated to transforming conditions of confinement and driving decarceration. He is also a co-producer of the HBO documentary, The Alabama Solution.
Thomas Gant is a advocate, organizer, writer, and community leader whose life and work embody resilience, redemption, and transformational leadership. After serving 25 years of incarceration, including 16 years at Attica Correctional Facility, Thomas has turned lived experience into a powerful force for systemic change across New York State. Since returning home, Thomas has emerged as a leading voice in efforts to end mass incarceration and transform prison culture through policy advocacy, narrative change, and grassroots organizing. He serves as a Community Organizer with the Center for Community Alternatives and helps lead the statewide Communities Not Cages campaign, advancing critical sentencing reform legislation including the Second Look Act, Earned Time Act, and the Marvin Mayfield Act.
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