In my opinion, there's probably 15 things that I think will. Will be harmful and detrimental to the city if we're not at the helm, and Rikers island is one of them. The closure of Rikers with the current plan is probably one of the things that lacked the most common sense I could ever imagine. 7,400 prisoners are there. 7,400. It started out with $8 billion. Now it's costing us $16 billion. Four small Rikers in each county, except for Staten island, the population could only hold 4,600. (37:56–38:05)
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