Word: overcrowdedness
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Why did such savagery take place? Prison experts readily cited some causes. The penitentiary was badly overcrowded; built in 1956 for 800 inmates, it routinely held up to 1,200, and the close confinement helped make fights and homosexual rape everyday occurances. In an investigation completed last month State Attorney...
The decision came after an unexpectedly high percentage of students admitted to the Class of '83 decided to attend the University. Last year 50 to 60 more students than anticipated accepted admission, swamping University officials and leaving them with problems of accommodating an overcrowded class, Jewett said.
For every kind of tragedy in the overcrowded city, Mother Teresa and her nuns managed to create a measure of consolation. They collected abandoned babies from gutters and garbage heaps and tried to nurse them back to health. They brought in the dying so they might die under care and...
Five representatives from each of six area high schools attended the meeting, which many said was disorganized and overcrowded.
Canaday Hall, which was overcrowded last year on the top floor, now has extra freshmen in some of the first floor suites, James A. Klein, senior advisor for Canaday, said yesterday.