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Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

Plot: 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
Release Date: Saturday, January 1 1993
30 years ago
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Portrait of Jon AlpertJon Alpert
Jon Alpert was
46 in Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
as 'Director, Producer'
Thu, Jan 01 1948
Portrait of Nina RosenblumNina Rosenblum
Nina Rosenblum was
>> in Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
as 'Producer, Director'
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Portrait of Sheila NevinsSheila Nevins
Sheila Nevins was
54 in Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
as 'Executive Producer'
Thu, Apr 06 1939