Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (1994)
75 min
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
- May 27, 1994
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Jon Alpert as Self - Interviewer and Cameraman
- Sean Bryan as Self
- Jackie as Self
- Eric Kane
- Jimmy Mirabel as Self
- Nancy Ramos Ortiz as Self
- Miguel 'Chino' Santiago as Self
- Eddie White as Self
- Avraham Yosef as Self
Crew
- Jon Alpert · Director
- Nina Rosenblum · Director
- Nina Rosenblum · Writer
- Jon Alpert · Editor
- Fiona Boneham · Editor
- John Custodio · Editor