Soldiers stood pinned against the wall of the already overcrowded building, keeping the mob at bay with the butts of their submachine guns.

But while the station houses reassure outsiders, they are often decaying, overcrowded buildings to the police officers who work in them.

And yet there are still overcrowded buildings, leaking roofs, sealed-off classrooms and intolerable conditions.

Many of the schools, in overcrowded and dilapidated buildings, suffer from high dropout rates and low reading scores, among other ills.

He often played in overcrowded buildings with no shortage of people who got a kick out of taunting him.

Children in secondary modern schools are disadvantaged by working in bad and overcrowded buildings, and with not enough teachers.

With the buildings so overcrowded, building inspections and garbage collection were below the minimum mandatory requirements for healthy sanitation.

Teaching even first-graders to walk quietly through the halls of overcrowded buildings and play cooperatively during recess is serious and often complex business.

Another solution is to create specialized programs at underused schools to attract students from overcrowded buildings.

As it is, we imprison too many children in crumbling, overcrowded buildings with few resources.