Watch Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

Name: Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1994
Duration: 1 hr 15 min
Cast: Jon Alpert, Sean Bryan, Jackie

TV-MA
1994
1 hr 15 min
7.6 (237)

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.

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island is a 1994 documentary with a runtime of 1 hour and 15 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.6.

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