Held as a material witness in the compulsory prostitution trial of Mickey Jelke, the comely courtesan was unable to raise bail and was committed to the Women's House of Detention, a terribly overcrowded prison.

A 2002 documentary named Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death by Jamie Doran produced testimony from eyewitnesses alleging hundreds or even thousands of prisoners had died, either during transport in the containers or being shot and dumped in the Dasht-i-Leili desert after arriving at hopelessly overcrowded Sheberghan prison.

Noonan, however, also presided over the justice ministry when inmates in an overcrowded and understaffed Spike Island prison set fire to the building.

Thousands of Arabs were held in administrative detention, without trial, and without proper sanitation, in overcrowded prison camps.

The prisons soon got severely overcrowded with detainees suspected of anti-Soviet activities and the NKVD had to open dozens of ad-hoc prison sites in almost all towns of the region.

They were all transferred to Newgate prison for this reason, although that prison was so overcrowded and unhealthy that they soon returned.

A 2005 court-ordered report found that the prison was " old, antiquated, dirty, poorly staffed, poorly maintained with inadequate medical space and equipment and overcrowded.

A month prior to the raid, family members of Quantrill's men held as hostages by Unionist forces in a dilapidated and overcrowded Kansas City prison, died when that building collapsed.

In a 2003 report the Prison Reform Trust criticised Cookham Wood for being one of the most overcrowded women's prison in the UK.

But in general the prison system in the twentieth century remained in Victorian buildings which steadily became more and more overcrowded with inevitable results.

Katrina is imprisoned in a squalid, overcrowded Bangkok prison nicknamed the " Bangkok Hilton ".

Eugene then becomes a teacher at a nearby overcrowded prison run by a Japanese corporation.

Prisons are overcrowded and unhealthy, and prison rape is not uncommon.

By 1961, due to the overcrowded conditions ( 6, 000 to 8, 000 political prisoners at one time ) it was the site of various riots and hunger strikes, especially just before the Bay of Pigs invasion, when orders were given to line the tunnels underneath the entire prison with several tons of TNT.

The prison was overcrowded.

The prison itself is located over a deep pit that can only be crossed by a retractable bridge, while the prisoners are kept in overcrowded cells secured by laser walls.

The prison was also criticised for being overcrowded, under-resourced, and failing to prepare prisoners for release.

A report in 2005 named Shrewsbury prison as the most overcrowded in England and Wales and this continues to be the case to the present day.

Shrewsbury is currently ( and has been for several years ) the most overcrowded prison in England and Wales-with an ' in-use CNA level ' of 196 % in early December 2011 ( down from 198 % in late November 2011 ).

The whole prison is now under lockdown until things settle down, but until then, the cellblock is overcrowded.

During dinner, Bob talks about his time in prison: the cells were overcrowded, his ChapStick was co-opted, and his Emmy was confiscated.

Later this phase of his life would also inspire him to write his Memórias do Cárcere ( literally " Memories of Prison "), in which he describes the meanders of the then miserable and overcrowded prison of Relação, at the centre of Oporto, intertwined with intimate ramblings of the imagination and biographical fragments.

Although the Kwun Tong Line tracks had already been laid for the station in 1979, Prince Edward was not opened until the Tsuen Wan Line opened on 10 May 1982, since the station was designed principally for the purpose of interchanging to ease the expected overcrowded interchange at Mong Kok Station.

It is massively overcrowded, holding more than twice as many prisoners as it was designed for.

Unlike the typical idea of an arcology-clean, healthy, and safe for the environment, " hives " are portrayed as dirty, diseased, overcrowded and the area around them as highly polluted.

In it, humanity has abandoned space and is left with an overcrowded Earth where a small elite not only treats all the rest as chattel slaves, but also regularly practices cannibalism, its members getting their chefs to prepare " roast suckling coolie " for their banquets.

Workers also had good reasons for discontent: overcrowded housing with often deplorable sanitary conditions, long hours at work ( on the eve of the war a 10-hour workday six days a week was the average and many were working 11 – 12 hours a day by 1916 ), constant risk of injury and death from very poor safety and sanitary conditions, harsh discipline ( not only rules and fines, but foremen ’ s fists ), and inadequate wages ( made worse after 1914 by steep war-time increases in the cost of living ).

In the 1990s, San Francisco International Airport proposed filling in hundreds more acres to extend its overcrowded international runways in exchange for purchasing other parts of the bay and converting them back to wetlands.

“ provide for the care of our citizens who live in the poorest overcrowded parts of our cities and towns.

A surrounding gridiron street system allowed for opened shopping areas, far from the dense and overcrowded crannies of the old ( Frampton 1995, p. 145 ).

Sinking even lower, he now finds himself living in an overcrowded subterranean hovel, which becomes a scene of chaos and bloodshed when it is attacked with gunfire by authorities purportedly searching for anarchists and revolutionaries.

The school is overcrowded, and he cannot continue on the small amount offered to blacks for education by the local white government.

In order to increase capacity on South West Trains ' overcrowded suburban services into Waterloo, there have for several years been plans to increase train lengths from 8 cars to 10.

Haredi families on average have 5. 9 children, almost 2. 5 times the average for England and Wales, and many families live in overcrowded flats.

Much of Thamesmead was initially built by the Greater London Council ( GLC ) for rent to families moving from overcrowded back-to-back Victorian housing ( also referred to as slums ) in south eastern parts of Inner London.

Many were upset that in trying to balance the budget, Davis cut spending for schools while increasing spending for prisons in lieu that in the coming years, a federal court ruling would declare the conditions in California prisons so poor and overcrowded that they were unconstitutional.

In addition, the town soon became overcrowded, lacked sufficient housing, and was unable to produce enough to become self-sufficient, although they still had " high hopes for the future.

During the American Civil War, Delhi and Monroe, the seat of Ouachita Parish, were both overcrowded with unwelcome refugees from rural areas to the east when the forces of General U. S. Grant moved into northeastern Louisiana and spent the winter of 1862-1863 at Winter Quarters south of Newellton in Tensas Parish in preparation for the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, not completed until July 4, 1863.

Durfee High School in the north end, replacing the historic Rock Street masterpiece that had become overcrowded and outdated for use as a high school.

On October 15, 2010, the city broke ground on a new middle school for grades 5-8 to replace an aging junior high facility and overcrowded elementary school facilities.

The settlement of Altoona began in 1881 when the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway selected the site for a new terminal to replace the overcrowded existing terminal in Eau Claire.

Designed as an area for students to do work, Frontier students have found that it is severely overcrowded and concerns have been voiced.

The principals argued that the future of the LSO lay in profitable session work for film companies, rather than in the overcrowded field of London concerts.

The New York Times reported that keeping pigs and other animals in " unnaturally overcrowded " environments poses considerable health risks for workers, neighbors, and consumers.

In a number of local authority areas, due to the shortage of council housing three out of four properties may be designated for priority cases ( those living in poor overcrowded conditions, with medical or welfare needs, or needing family support ) or homeless applicants in order to meet the councils ’ legal obligations to rehouse people in need.

Despite being overcrowded and cramped, many houses on the street had gardens as indicated by an advertisement for a residential property in 1798.

As the city started to get overcrowded in the 14th century, new buildings were built on the shores outside the city wall, and gradually land fillings between the bridges along the shores gave room for sheds and storehouses forming the elongated blocks separated by narrow alleys which are today characteristic for the old town.