Wrongful Conviction, with Jason Flom
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Cost of Overtime
Rikers Island, it costs $565,000 a year to keep a kid locked up there. That's almost exactly 100 times as much as it does to help that kid and turn them into a productive tax paying citizen. If you just look at the overtime we play to police in New York City, a fraction of what we pay in overtime would solve our homeless problem," he said.
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