51% of Rikers population, they have a mental health issue. 20% have severe mental health. What I'm saying to them that The four more jails that they want to build, it was going to cause 8 billion. Now it doubled 16 billion to build it. What I'm saying to them, instead of building four more jails that can't hold the prison population, because the four more jails are going to hold about 3,600 people, we have about 7,000 people there right now. (1:35:15–1:35:24)
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Asserts that the cost to build four more jails has doubled from $8 billion to $16 billion.
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