The city would also commit $144 million in capital funds to add 3,662 jail spaces.

The program also provides for jail space to handle an expected surge in arrests.

This would help in planning the needs of jail space.

Sea-Land is paying for the cost of the jail space.

Very soon, however, it became impossible to find sufficient jail space for them.

He added that the city was "going full scale" on its construction program for more jail space.

Pressure on jail space now makes a new look at it all the more interesting, even urgent.

A thousand hostages had been taken, only to learn that there was no jail space to keep them.

The shortage of jail space remains a growing problem as well.

But so far voters have refused to approve new taxes to build more jail space.