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. What do you do with the rest of them? Zoran said just let them out. They go back to the communities that they preyed on in the first place. 51% of the inmates have mental health illness. 51%. (38:21–38:27)
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Asserts that the new facilities can only hold 4,600 inmates, questioning the plan for the remaining prisoners.
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