Word: overcrowdedness
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It is that striving for perfection that most impresses acquaintances. When she and John helped complete their lavish home in suburban Paradise Valley, where houses cost $500,000 or more, one friend was amazed to find them both soaking adobe bricks in coat after coat of milk. "It's...
Your picture of the overcrowded cell in the Illinois Correctional Center looked great to me. I spent two years living in a cramped berthing area on board a Coast Guard cutter. There was nothing we could do to change our conditions. We didn't dare riot.
As a lifer I appreciated your observations in "The Prison Nightmare." The public must realize that prison is an institution of great social reform that has turned into a monster. The mentality that says lock 'em up and throw away the key is producing overcrowded conditions that inevitably explode...
In 1975 Kelly Chapman, an armed robber, and Richard Jaworski, who was serving out a narcotics conviction, were forced to share a 10½-ft. by 6½-ft. cell at Ohio's maximum-security prison in Lucasville. Citing the Eighth Amendment's ban on "cruel and unusual...
Many London hotels are booked only half-full for next month, a disappointment to the government, which had expected a crush of tourists for the royal wedding on July 29. By hyping the wedding as the tourist draw of a lifetime, Britons may unintentionally have scared off many would-be...