Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (1994)

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.

Released

1994-05-27

Genres

Documentary, TV Movie

Runtime

75 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Jon Alpert, Nina Rosenblum

TMDB rating

5.3/10 from 7 votes