New York City's Bureau of Correctional Health studied 800 people who routinely move in and out of jail and found that, together, they were admitted to Rikers more than 18000 times and spent more than half a million days behind bars in the final 6 years.
WNYC reporter Cindy Rodriguez talks about how the city is trying to identify people who frequently halt up in jail and offer them housing and social services to incentivize a change in behavior.
Source: wnyc.org