Parole bonds are sometimes used as a way of relieving overcrowded prisons.

Prop 5 would reduce pressure on overcrowded and expensive prisons.

The hopeless and discouraged also live in an overcrowded prison.

After suffering heavy police interrogations, the young group of women are eventually transferred to an overcrowded prison.

Pretty soon, there will not be any debate in this city about overcrowded prisons.

I had already called one special session to raise money for schools and overcrowded prisons.

When we send offenders to overcrowded prisons (at about the same cost as college), they simply learn to become better criminals.

Eugene then becomes a teacher at a nearby overcrowded prison run by a Japanese corporation.

Narcotics officers find that the people they once worked to arrest are often quickly released from overcrowded prisons.

But for states faced with overcrowded prisons and limited budgets, it may not be irrational.