You want to keep our young people off of Rikers island, we need to make sure that they have quality community centers like this. And If we could spend, as a city, think about this, 550, $50,000 a year to house one individual in Rikers Island. We dag on sure should be making sure that that money is coming back into centers like Palmano so we don't have to see our young people on Rikers Island. (13:37–13:46)
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Asserts that it costs $550,000 a year to house one individual in Rikers Island.
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