🎬 Documentary, TV Movie

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

⭐ 5.5/10 1994 1h 15m Dir. Jon Alpert

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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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Year
1994
Runtime
1h 15m
TMDB Rating
⭐ 5.5/10
Votes
6
Genre
Documentary, TV Movie
Director
Jon Alpert
Language
EN
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Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island has a runtime of 1h 15m (1 hour and 15 minutes).
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island was directed by Jon Alpert and released in 1994.
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island is a Documentary, TV Movie film (1994).
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island has a TMDB rating of 5.5/10 based on 6 votes.

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