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JUNE6, 1994
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Jimmy Mirabel was born to a drug- addicted mother at Rikers Island
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land"(10:15tonightonHBO)won't flabbergast anyone with a mildly active imagination about prison life.
Convicts who roam through the Jon Alper t and Nina Rosenblum documen- tary are poor and scarcely educated. More than 90 percent are black or Lati· no. Many of them are abundantly dan· gerous, and a few guards don't lack for creepiness, either. They all operate in a crowded, metallic environment a razor line between control and chaos.
Wealreadyknewallthat,though we might not care to dwell on it. But the HBO documentary delivers its fistful of tragedies at such intimate range that
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BYMICHAEL SNYDER
Chronicle Stall Critic
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