Word: overcrowdedness
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In addition to 800 prisoners now housed in the large wood-and-canvas tents, 350 are doubled up in 11-ft. by 4½-ft. cells designed for one person. The prison, which has a rated capacity of 2,700, is so overcrowded that Warden Reginald Pulley has confined many...
Ways and Means Committee officials say the tax-free bond market is overcrowded by colleges, hospitals, and other institutions seeking to raise funds cheaply. This scenario has driven interest rates higher and squeezed smaller colleges out of the bond market. While state authorities discredit this analysis, Harvard officials have essentially...
About 95% of the students at Waller were black; enrollment at Lincoln Park is 56% black. This year 200 applied for the 30 places in Lincoln Park's International Baccalaureate program, an academically demanding two-year curriculum, and students who scored in the 97th percentile on the entrance exam...
The toughest new zoning requirements have been laid down in overcrowded San Francisco. Since 1981, the city has forced developers to pay for the construction or renovation of a certain amount of housing whenever they put up a major office building. The idea is to create new dwellings for the...
Both the advocates and the opponents of capital punishment had statistics to buttress their arguments. Abolitionists noted that since 1965, the number of murders that would have been punishable by death had not increased significantly. Prison guards announced their support for the noose, while prison governors felt executions would only...