RATING | 7.0 / 10 |
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GENRES | Documentary |
YEAR | 1990s / 1994 |
RUNTIME | 1h 15m |
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LANGUAGE | English |
COUNTRY | United States |
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. |