Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Zero Mostel, who grew up in a small, overcrowded tenement apartment, recalls that "the alliance gave me a new life-I had never seen such big rooms before!"
The reshuffling had barely begun. Soon after being sworn in as President, Sayem addressed the nation, promising a return to parliamentary rule by February 1977. A few hours later, Radio Bangladesh crackled with news that General Zia had returned to power, as chief of staff of the Bangladesh army but...
Louisiana's department of corrections is thinking of bringing a World War II troopship out of mothballs to serve as an auxiliary prison. The Florida State Prison at Starke has 646 inmates living in Army tents and converted warehouses. Georgia's maximum-security prison at Reidsville is so...
Some courts have tried to reduce the crowding, but without much success. In 1970, for example, a federal judge in Louisiana ruled that conditions in a New Orleans prison constituted cruel and unusual punishment and ordered the convict population cut from 1,200 to 450; it is still almost double...
Not to be unfair, I can see how having to travel from Hilles to William James in under seven minutes would require some fast moving, but at the same time, residents of Radcliffe are expected to do this daily. And this kind of travelling is fine if you have two...