government concerning U.S. prisons. Prison overcrowding has affected some states more than others, but overall, the risks of overcrowding are substantial and...

severe prison overcrowding and unconstitutional living conditions. Those conditions led to a set of court cases that mandated a reduction in overcrowding and...

prison riots emphasize a connection between prison conditions (such as prison overcrowding) and riots, or discuss the dynamics of the modern prison riot...

cultural norms. Overcrowding may arise temporarily or regularly, in the home, in public spaces or on public transport. Overcrowding in the home can cause...

reduce overcrowding in closed prisons. The idea of open prisons is to rehabilitate prisoners rather than to punish them. Nettukaltheri Open Prison & Correctional...

Kingdom Government established a new prison ship, HMP Weare, as a temporary measure to ease prison overcrowding. Weare was docked at the disused Royal...

1819, the prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. Its women prisoners were all moved out to other prisons in 2005 due to overcrowding and suicides...

Prisons in India are overcrowded and eight of out ten prisoners in Indian jails await trial. There are 1319 prisons in India as of 2021. Currently, there...

ASPC-Douglas, was the Maricopa unit. The next was the Mohave unit. Due to prison overcrowding the Gila unit was built with portable modular housing. In 1984, a...

remains the largest of Moscow's remand prisons. Overcrowding is an ongoing problem. The first references to Butyrka prison may be traced back to the 17th century...

century, Saint-Gilles Prison was for a long time emblematic of overcrowding in Belgian prisons. Its infrastructure being in very poor condition, it is scheduled...

Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Plata declared California's prisons so overcrowded they inflicted cruel and unusual punishment, Harris fought federal...

many prisons have become overburdened, often operating at capacities far beyond their intended limits. Overcrowding not only strains the prison system...

August 2012. "Prison overcrowding poses problems". bbc.co.uk. 19 September 2002. Retrieved 7 January 2009. "'Overcrowding problem' at prison". bbc.co.uk...

effort to relieve California prison overcrowding that peaked in 2006, CDCR began housing California prisoners in prisons in other states. In 2009, CDCR...

warned in a report that overcrowding at Birmingham was putting prisoners and staff at risk. The report stated that if overcrowding was not tackled, then...

and sex" and "Prison capacity and overcrowding - totals". In the United States alone, more than $74 billion per year is spent on prisons, with over 800...

which has the highest overcrowding rate of any prison system in the country – must alleviate overcrowding in the state's prisons, reducing the prisoner...

Inside the World's Toughest Prisons is a television documentary series produced by London-based Emporium Productions and available on Netflix. The documentary...

detainees, up from 850 in March 2009. The prison's overcrowding problem is also a major problem of the Croatian prison system in general. Poor living conditions...

detention centers in Ethiopia came under scrutiny. The prisons are overcrowded, for example a prison in Asella has a capacity of 400 people, but holds 3000...

jewelry stores. She was released three months later, however, due to prison overcrowding. In July 2015 she was reportedly stealing again and was believed...

Department of Correction is the government agency responsible for operating the prison system of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The Massachusetts...

to operate factories inside the prison walls using convict labor. A women’s wing was opened in 1892 but overcrowding soon forced the men and women to...

contact with each other. The panopticons fell out of use, due to prison overcrowding, and were largely demolished in the early 1900s. The panopticons...

and overcrowding in Ghana's prisons were called "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment," by the UN in 2013. The extent of prison overcrowding is estimated...

Pentonville prison, at Capital Punishment.org "Pentonville prison". Capitalpunishmentuk.org. Retrieved 20 October 2016. "Overcrowding blamed for prison's problems"...

maximum sentence of ten years. The consequent unprecedented levels of prison overcrowding prompted sentencing reform, including stricter criteria for the imposition...

In the late 1990s Connecticut addressed its prison overcrowding issues by transferring inmates to prisons in Virginia. Rep. Lawlor strongly opposed this...

corporate owner to increase profits by millions, privatization of prison, overcrowding, guard brutality, and racial discrimination (among other issues)...