“It’s only going to hold about 100 more people than the Tombs”.
I don’t doubt you but where did you get the stat? I want to share it with someone.
https://apnews.com/article/6053d86faae64edbb315510e319c5a81
...NEW YORK (AP) — New York City lawmakers voted Thursday to close the notorious Rikers Island jail complex, which has become synonymous with violence and neglect, and replace it with four smaller jails intended to be more modern and humane.
The City Council voted 36-13 to replace the complex with four smaller jails located closer to the city’s main courthouses in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens...
The article says this prison will hold a 1000 people. The wikipedia article says the Tombs are good for 900 people. Obviously that is not quite true, because that is probably the number when you only put one person in a cell, whereas most jails are over capacity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tombs