A Writing Mentorship Program for Incarcerated Citizens
The Alabama Solution is now available on streaming services!
Our co-founder Alex Duran was a producer of The Alabama Solution, a shockingly painful documentary on the brutality and corruption of a system in collapse. The film, which had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, follows the prison system in Alabama from the perspective of incarcerated leaders. Following its premiere, The Alabama Solution won The Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards’ Best Political Documentary Category in November 2025. Duran, as a formerly incarcerated co-producer, contributed to the documentary’s development and investigative approach, drawing from lived experience with the U.S. prison system.
"If incarcerated inmates can make progress in activism from inside prison walls, it suggests even greater things are possible when people with more resources join forces. The documentary illuminating the issue is a major step."
-Fred Topel, United Press International
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No Place Like Home is now available on Amazon!
Transforming Lives for a Safer New York Was Created To Help Incarcerated Citizens So They Don't Get Stuck In Prison's Revolving Doors
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Our goal is to transform the lives of those both inside and outside the walls.
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This drawing is by an incarcerated citizen illustrating Plato's classic tale The Parable of The Cave that describes the profound impact lack of education can have on a human being.
“Transforming Lives provides us with an avenue for our voices to be heard.”
Alkim Mills
Member of Transforming Lives since 2015