Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
| 01 January 1994 (USA)
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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.

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DipitySkillful

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

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AshUnow

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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Quiet Muffin

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

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Francene Odetta

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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