Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
1994, English. Directed by Jon Alpert & Nina Rosenblum.
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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- 1h 15m
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- 27 May 1994
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- United States of America
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Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (1994) was directed by Jon Alpert and Nina Rosenblum.