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""Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20th century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America’s collective...

Alabama's Department of Corrections is plagued by organized crime, managerial incompetence and corporate exploitation. The state prison system has become the worst in the nation and one of the worst in the world. Alabama prisons have the highest murder rate and the highest suicide rate – with an average of one death every other day. This is radicAL, where an incarcerated activist and a fed-up lawyer take you behind the barbed wire fences to show you the root of the problems that those in power are desperate to keep hidden.

Karen Swift, a mother with four children, was reported missing on Oct. 30, 2011, three weeks after she had filed for divorce from her husband. Hunters found her body near a Dyersburg cemetery on Dec. 10, 2011, six weeks after she was reported missing and nine weeks after she had filed for divorce.Prosecutors said David Swift was the last person to see his wife alive when she returned home from a Halloween party.Following the indictment more than 11 years after her death, David Swift was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was living after being remarried.If convicted, David Swift faces ...