And jails are increasingly facing security problems, from dangerous overcrowding to drug smuggling.

Some officials had expressed the fears that Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's crackdown on "quality of life" crimes would produce dangerous overcrowding.

Entry to the ground was slow due to the few decrepit turnstiles available to the Liverpool fans which caused dangerous overcrowding outside the ground before kick-off.

And though riots, mob violence, and famine had reduced the Earth's population dramatically, a mass effort was made to see that such a dangerous overcrowding would never occur again.

The local authority built a large council estate at Sheriff Hill to alleviate dangerous overcrowding in Gateshead, effectively turning the area into a residential suburb.

Without any provision for ending them once the population rose high enough, of course we would reach a point of dangerous overcrowding, having institutionalized the very reward system that brought us to this pass.

More than ever, New York City's jails need an active watchdog to uphold standards as officials try to cope with dangerous overcrowding.

The Kampo stage was intimate, though the effect was somewhat dissipated by the uncomfortable and possibly dangerous overcrowding of the theater.

As there is only a pavement capacity of about 150,000 along the key streets of the event, contingency plans to avoid dangerous overcrowding are being considered.

Such solutions would relieve the dangerous overcrowding in the prisons and substantially save the taxpayer money.