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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
31 years ago
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Portrait of Jon AlpertJon AlpertJon Alpert was 46 in Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island as 'Director, Producer'
Birthday: Thu, Jan 01 1948
Portrait of Nina RosenblumNina RosenblumNina Rosenblum was >> in Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island as 'Producer, Director'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
Portrait of Sheila NevinsSheila NevinsSheila Nevins was 54 in Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island as 'Executive Producer'
Birthday: Thu, Apr 06 1939