Filmed over a span of 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 Jimmy Mirabel, who was born and later died in prison, and Nancy Figueroa, who gave birth in the prison hospital ward. This powerful film addresses the inequities of mass incarceration and reveals the shocking degradation in the terrifying inferno that is Rikers Island. LOCK-UP: THE PRISONERS OF RIKERS ISLAND was broadcast on HBO’s America Undercover series.