
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
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1994-01-01 • 1h 15m
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.
- Directors
- Jon Alpert, Nina Rosenblum

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Visit website1994-01-01 • 1h 15m
5.2/10 • 4
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.
- Directors
- Jon Alpert, Nina Rosenblum
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