More interest in prisons than in shelters/schools?
(Kozol 2006 p.106) "Staten Island borough president states, 'A jail is preferable to a shelter because it's self contained... it doesn't spill over.'" (into the surrounding neighborhood).
(Kozol 2006. 106) "The New York prison population is approaching 15,000. In desperation to find further space, the city has converted a ferry boat to hold another 160 men. It now announces plans to build a vast new prison that will hold 4,000 inmates. The Staten Island borough president has opposed plans to build four homeless shelters in his borough and indicates preferences for a prison."