But the system suffered from a shortage of qualified personnel, a lack of funds, and overcrowded facilities.
It became known in its later years, however, as an outdated and badly overcrowded facility.
Certainly, summers can be a crush here, a paradise lost of RV traffic jams and overcrowded facilities.
In truth, many psychiatrists were trying to convert such institutions from overcrowded, custodial facilities to state-of-the-art medical centers.
Incarcerating people in overcrowded facilities is inhumane and always expensive: it costs $29,500 a year to imprison each person.
In 1922, the school raised over one million dollars to expand the overcrowded facilities in Brooklyn.
The new buildings will replace outdated and overcrowded facilities.
Complying with today's strict prison standards in often overcrowded and sometimes outdated facilities make the job even tougher.
At Bellevue, for example, patients may wait a long time to be seen because of overcrowded facilities.
A number of football fans were crushed to death in a stadium a few years ago when spectators tried to get into the overcrowded facility.