Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

5.2
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 75 min
  • Premiere: 1994. January 1.

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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Nina Rosenblum

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Jon Alpert

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Nina Rosenblum

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Sheila Nevins

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Directing

Jon Alpert

Director

Nina Rosenblum

Director

Production

Jon Alpert

Producer

Nina Rosenblum

Producer

Sheila Nevins

Executive Producer