Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

Name: Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Director: Jon Alpert
Genre: Documentary, Crime, TV Movie
Released: 1994-05-27
Duration: 4500 s
Cast: Jon Alpert, Sean Bryan, Jackie

Directed by Jon Alpert, Nina Rosenblum

TV-MA

1994 75m[Documentary](/on-demand/category/documentary), [Crime](/on-demand/category/crime)

7.55.5

A look inside Rikers Island which is a rather unknown place in New York. Many of the inmates and various people working in the law enforcement field are interviewed. We see aftermath of violence, different units, a drug search in one of the prison units, judge visits etc.