Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island 30 years old

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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Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (30 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, January 01, 1994
  • Runtime: 75 minutes