Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
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.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Jon Alpert, Nina Rosenblum
Actors: Eddie White, Jackie, Jimmy Mirabel, Miguel 'Chino' Santiago