4.6

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

Name: Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Director: Jon Alpert
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Released: 1994-05-27T00:00:00.000000Z
Duration: 75 min
Rating: 4.6

19941h 15m

DocumentaryTV Movie

Overview

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.