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“In L.A. County and around the country, alternatives to incarceration can shrink our grossly outsized carceral footprint, making it much easier for us to protect our communities from coming disasters.”

“But for the wind blowing in a different direction there could have been a catastrophe that would have been unrivaled in terms of carceral deaths,” Corene Kendrick, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project, told The Times this week.

But it is also a living record of the recent history of the carceral system in the U.S. in general and in California in particular.

After all, today the government detains around 40,000 immigrants a day and could detain more in the sprawling and unused carceral infrastructure in the country.

Much of “The Alabama Solution,” which reports on inhumane living conditions, forced labor and widespread violence against the state’s incarcerated population, is comprised largely of footage captured by inmates using contraband cellphones, offering one of the most shocking, visceral depictions of our carceral state ever put to film.