Prisons were overcrowded.

We cannot have many millions of people on regular food handouts in overcrowded camps.

Prisons remain overcrowded, with more than 7,000 detainees occupying space for a maximum capacity of 3,750 inmates.

The region's penal institutions are poorly resourced, overcrowded and increasingly vulnerable to the spread of HIV AIDS.

45 percent of the 14 million people who live in Delhi live in unauthorized slums, which are chronically overcrowded.

With a view to improving the situation in the country's overcrowded prisons, his Government had freed 500 common criminals.

Cities in the developing world are characterized by inadequately planned and overcrowded settlements without access to even basic urban services.

The makeshift camps are extremely overcrowded, and outbreaks of malaria, cholera, typhoid, respiratory infections and other diseases may therefore result.

He was kept in an overcrowded cell with 100 other inmates, had no bed to sleep on, and received inadequate food.

Little efforts were made by the occupying Power to improve the poor condition of 12 overcrowded schools in the occupied Golan's remaining villages.

In Southern Darfur, agencies continue to encounter obstacles to the relocation of some of the internally displaced persons in the overcrowded Kalma camp.

The situation of the refugees in the occupied Palestinian territory was dismal, characterized by high unemployment, extreme poverty, overcrowded shelters and inadequate infrastructure.

1.45 Insufficient project funding for school construction and upgrading of camp infrastructure contributes to overcrowded schoolrooms, poor environmental health conditions and dilapidation of refugee shelters.

Furthermore, the poor quality of some education, resulting from irrelevant and obsolete curricula, overcrowded classrooms, untrained teachers and gender discrimination, cause high dropout and repetition rates especially among girls.

The problems resulting from overcrowded prisons are compounded by limited access to health care facilities and legal counsel for prisoners as well as the erratic supply of water to prisons.

And by the way, all of these numbers are significantly higher if you happen to be black, if you happen to be poor, if you happen to exist in an overcrowded school.

The same extraordinary growth that has lifted millions up from poverty in our region now threatens millions more as environments become degraded, pollution increases and people migrate to overcrowded towns and cities.

Severely overcrowded classrooms, lacking in trained teachers and basic supplies, are not uncommon. In the rush to expand services, school systems have sometimes neglected teachers professional development, student assessment, and even basic building standards.

It would like the Secretary General to compare this structure with those of the leading governments and other international Organizations which also tended to be overcrowded at the top, and submit a report on the subject.

They worked long hours in stifling conditions, lived in overcrowded and unsanitary housing, and experienced little growth in earnings. Some indicators, such as workers average height, suggest that standards of living may have even declined for a while.

For the schoolchild in Port au Prince, the new mother in Mogadishu, or the farmer in Ocotepeque, these losses have a real impact overcrowded classrooms, non existent health clinics, and inadequate water resources. People s opportunities are being stolen from them.

The humanitarian situation in Kalma camp also remains worrying, with conditions in the overcrowded camp deteriorating and camp management rendered increasingly difficult by the expansion of its size and the lack of trust between internally displaced persons and local authorities.

The number of families without adequate accommodation in Republika Srpska (without water, heating, electricity), as well as the number of those who are living in overcrowded, humid wet, unsafe and in other ways inadequate conditions, is 94,570, which is a worrisome piece of information.

Overcrowded Underground trains and Heathrow s congestion are having an impact, though it is hard to understand why New York wins on these measures. Riding the Subway often brings unpleasant surprises, while JFK Airport is hardly a favorite among travelers (and there remains no fast rail link to it).

NEW DELHI China has devised a novel strategy to relieve pressure on its overcrowded prisons employ convicts as laborers on overseas projects in the developing world. The practice has exposed another facet of China s egregious human rights record, which, when it comes to the overseas operations of Chinese companies, includes the government s failure to enforce its own regulations.

The United States was a model for political abuse and racial discrimination its prisons were disproportionately overcrowded with African American and Latin American inmates it did not regard torture as a federal crime and applied the death penalty at record levels, with no allowance for minors or the mentally ill and its political life was tainted by electoral fraud and corruption.

It is also concerned about the marked disparities in enrolment between rural and urban areas, the high rates of non attendance and repetition, overcrowded classrooms and teaching in two or three shifts, fees and extra payments charged in many schools, the low quality of education, the large number of untrained teachers, the insufficient in service training and low salaries of teachers.