Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

Name: Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1994-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 75 min
Rating: 5.2

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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