Andrew Jarecki

and, and, and, and kind of absurdist thing because there's no money in it.

They never get an award.

There are conversations that happen like, okay, well, this guy got his finger intentionally cut off in a cell door by a guard.

But how much is a finger really worth?

You know, maybe it's, it's $5,000.

It's very hard to get a lawyer to cover that.

We have lawyers said that would say to us along the way, like, find me a

you know, a murder, that might be worth it.

That might be worth my getting into it.

So in this particular case, Rod Gadson's name had kept coming up.

And then one day, Melvin Ray texts Charlotte

my co-director, and says, hey, we understand somebody got beaten very badly at Donaldson Prison, and he's currently at UAB Hospital, so he was moved off the campus to the hospital.

So Charlotte and I just got in a car in Birmingham, and we just drove over to the hospital,

We walked in and I like took my iPhone and I stuck it in my pocket and, you know, moved it around a little bit.

And they said, oh, you got to go up to the fourth floor.

And we went up there.

And by the time we got there, we found that this young man, Stephen Davis had died.

So he had been, he had, and we didn't know how that had happened other than that he had been beaten.

And then we went to find his mother because often the prison doesn't tell the family members if somebody's been killed in prison, especially if it's done by a guard.

If the guard is responsible, they immediately scramble all the witnesses and they will say, well, let's not tell his mother for two weeks.