Brick City partnered with legendary journalist and political commentator, Bill Moyers to produce RIKERS, a documentary about one of the most notoriously violent jails in the country. Of the more than 7,500 people detained at Rikers Island on any given day, almost 80% have not yet been found guilty of a crime. Yet all are at risk in the pervasive culture of violence that forces people to come to terms with what they must do for their own survival.

RIKERS brings you face to face with men and women who have endured incarceration at Rikers Island. Their stories, told direct to camera, vividly describe the cruel arc of the RIKERS experience—from the shock of entry, to the extortion and control exercised by other inmates, the oppressive interaction with corrections officers, the beatings and stabbings, the torture of solitary confinement and the many challenges of returning to the outside world.

“A beautiful, yet deeply disturbing, film.” Michelle Alexander, Professor and author of The New Jim Crow

“I’ve never seen a film like this before - it is the raw truth of what it is like to be on Rikers Island.” Glenn E. Martin Founder and President Just Leadership USA.

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