Filmed during a span of 80 days over three years, LOCK-UP: THE PRISONERS OF RIKERS ISLAND provides an unblinking glimpse of life inside the world’s largest jail and the prisoners and guards who inhabit it. The film follows the stories of AIDS victim James Mirabel, who was born in a prison and later died in one, and Nancy Figuerora hospital ward. This powerful film reveals the shameless degradation and terrifying inferno that is Rikers Island.