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 [at Rikers]. So you're building four more jails. All right, keep going. Right. So what I say to them, instead of building four more jails that can't hold the prison population, why … (1:35:05–1:35:10)
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Asserts that there are about 7,000 people currently at Rikers.
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