The school opened primarily to relieve Freedom High School of its extreme overcrowding and to accommodate future development in the Dulles South area.

Winfield High underwent major expansion in 2006 to compensate for the extreme overcrowding of the school and to update many of the facilities.

The living conditions in jails were grievous: due to the massive number of arrests, prisoners lived in extreme overcrowding.

One of the major implications was extreme overcrowding of the local population in terms of their usually extensive farming systems.

Residential segregation and urban renewal, which plowed down the old Black Bottom ghetto without replacing it, caused extreme overcrowding.

This period was one of extreme overcrowding in the major cities.

More than 1,200 children are bused to other districts, and schools operate on double schedules to alleviate the extreme overcrowding.

Officials from the monitoring group said they did not know the sectarian composition of the detainee populations, or how long the centers had suffered from such extreme overcrowding.

South Western India has relatively high standards of living, although the city of Mumbai suffers from extreme overcrowding due to immigration from across the country.

Seeing extreme overcrowding and the fact that the pontoon was taking on water, he attempted to relinquish his space and lifejacket to wounded survivors nearby.