Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (1994)
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (1994)
If you're arrested in New York City and can't make bail, you'll be sent to Rikers Island -- a mammoth holding facility for 17,000 men and women awaiting trial. TV journalist Jon Alpert spent ten months filming there, coming away with a graphic and unblinking portrait of life inside America's largest jail complex, including a moving look at the human faces behind the statistics.

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If you're arrested in New York City and can't make bail, you'll be sent to Rikers Island -- a mammoth holding facility for 17,000 men and women awaiting trial. TV journalist Jon Alpert spent ten months filming there, coming away with a graphic and unblinking portrait of life inside America's largest jail complex, including a moving look at the human faces behind the statistics.


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Genres: Documentary

Language: English

Release Date: 01 January 1994

Country: US

Runtime: 75m

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Nina Rosenblum

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Jon Alpert

Jon Alpert

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Sheila Nevins

Sheila Nevins

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