Or eventually, they end up crowding a crowded prison.

Gawande brings needed attention to the folly of using isolation to control violence in our nation's crowded prisons.

The Italian government is considering a general pardon or amnesty to ease conditions in the country's badly crowded prisons.

Just as serious, crowded prisons cannot offer adequate rehabilitation programs: treatment for drugs and alcohol, psychotherapy, educational courses, work in prison industries.

Locking up the mentally ill also has high costs for the nation's crowded prisons and jails.

Officials describe it as typical of the crowded prisons in the Pennsylvania system and throughout the country.

The settlers were mostly convicts from crowded prisons in England and Ireland, with a group of soldiers to guard them.

Federal immigration officials agreed today to let Florida deport 500 to 1,000 illegal aliens who are held in the state's crowded prisons.

In the fighting that followed, inmates set part of the crowded prison on fire and fought with weapons ranging from knives to machine guns.

Others urged changes in the criminal justice system like alternative sentences to avoid sending nonviolent offenders to crowded prisons.