Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (HBO)
1 hr 15 min
1994
original
documentary

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (HBO): 

A graphic and unblinking documentary portrait of life inside America's largest prison complex.

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Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (HBO)

Genres

original, documentary

Runtime

1 hr 15 min

Release Year

1994

Rating Information

About This Movie

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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