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Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (1994)
Directed by Jon Alpert, Nina Rosenblum
Documentary, TV Movie · 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.
Crew
- Director
- Jon Alpert, Nina Rosenblum
- Producer
- Nina Rosenblum, Jon Alpert
Details
- Release date
- 1994-05-27
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Documentary, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America