Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson said yesterday that prisons are "seriously overcrowded" with people who have committed violent crimes. He called an expansion of the number of prisons "humanitarian" because it would prevent the "lack of privacy, the bestiality and the violence" in the present system.
"I wish they would hurry up and decide," Lisa Benjamin '80 said yesterday, adding that she does not think the Yard is overcrowded. "I think students should have an option to live at the Quad and upperclassmen should have a choice about living at Canaday," she added.
Besides, the Russians know how to cope with cold. Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad and other major cities all have superefficient subway systems, as well as good if overcrowded bus and streetcar service. The use of private cars is so limited that there are no traffic jams or parking problems. In any...
> Next to kidnaping, auto theft is Italy's favorite pastime; according to the latest figures, last year thieves heisted an estimated 46,000 cars from the streets of Rome. This is a necessary enterprise, since the city is far too overcrowded with automobiles and their removal helps ease the...
> Italy's jails, too, are vastly overcrowded, and the police report that the prisoners are doing an excellent job of alleviating the problem. There was a jail break roughly every 24 hours in 1976, and the rate is climbing. As the new year began, 13 prisoners overpowered their guards...