Zohran Mamdani: “It cost the city more than $500,000 to incarcerate some on…”

“40% of incarcerated New Yorkers there have serious mental illness. It's not only a political failure, a moral failure, it's also a fiscal failure. It cost the city more than $500,000 to incarcerate some on Rikers. One example of what we could be doing, how we could be serving those same New Yorkers with serious mental illness, is the clubhouse model.” (10:28–10:33)

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