system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Escape from New York] So I get the insane idea of one prison for every criminal in the US, but why uh.. Manhattan Island? Why not someplace more centrally located or the middle of the desert or something? Some place with less valuable real estate? Or another island, but why Manhattan?
gpt
At the time of the construction of the prison, New York was so infested with crime that it was easier to cut it off from the world and then evacuate the few non-criminals from Manhattan than to create a prison somewhere else and then transport the criminals there.