Andrew Jarecki
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And they also work at the Budweiser distributorship.
So all of these, this is a very, very ingrained system.
And it's worth so much money.
And when they announced, or their supporters announced this work strike, the three main people in our film, Robert Old Council, Melvin Ray, and Raoul Poole, were all whisked off to solitary confinement.
And they were put in kind of like a Hannibal Lecter type environment, where they couldn't talk to each other.
There were no windows in the cells.
Two of them are there right now.
Good news is that so many people now have been watching the film that we could go on social media and say, hey, these guys are locked up.
And there was a huge outcry.
And people went to the website and they got the phone number for Bibb County Correctional.
And hundreds of people called Bibb and said, we care about these guys.
Like, we're watching.
Don't do anything bad to them.
And they released the first of them, Melvin Ray, just a couple of days ago.
So we feel like the public is maddened.
Such a great question.
You know, the governor is called Meemaw by the people who love her.
Sure.
And, you know, she's quite old, and she's quite confident that they're doing the right thing in the prison system.
Perhaps that Meemaw.