00:00So last week we were at Manhattan's new jail site. Now we're at the Brooklyn new jail site. You can
00:04see this one isn't going to be as large or as tall as the Manhattan one. The Manhattan jail is
00:11going to be a skyscraper jail. One of the tallest jails in the world. This one in Brooklyn is 15
00:17is going to be 15 stories high and have a thousand beds. Meanwhile, Rikers Island continues to hold most of
00:24the city's incarcerated population. The idea with the borough based jails program is to shrink the population.
00:29and offer less beds in four new jails. However, a lot of people are saying that Rikers won't be able
00:36to close by next year. For more information, check out san.com.
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