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

Lock Up: The Prisoners of Riker's Island [Trailer]

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, inclu...