This effort will be hopeless unless they operate above capacity.

America's prisons are 17 percent above capacity, and national crime rates have fallen over the past several years.

By the 2002 school year, enrollment was at 1,840, more than 300 students above capacity.

However, because of high demand, it is above capacity and holds closer to 1100.

For months, the prison wards have been running chronically at or above capacity.

Few people disagree that new schools are needed in Queens, where all seven school districts operate at or above capacity.

However, most of these prisons currently operate at or above capacity.

They expect China may drop out completely in a week or so-they're above capacity, and their equipment is old.

Most states are in similar predicaments, their penitentiaries at or above capacity.

Pennsylvania's state prisons are operating at 48 percent above capacity, officials say.