Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island 1994 Released

Directed by Jon Alpert, Nina Rosenblum

Documentary, TV Movie · 1h 15min

 

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island 1994 Released

Directed by Jon Alpert, Nina Rosenblum

Documentary, TV Movie · 1h 15min

 

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.

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.
RELEASED
27 May, 1994
COUNTRY
US
LANGUAGE
EN
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English
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