Crowding in U.S. prisons stood at 39% over capacity in 2011, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
It was found to be more than 50% over capacity, with about 500 inmates more than it was designed for.
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With the current federal prison system at 39% over capacity, what we are now faced with is a math problem.
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The flood of messages slowed Twitter to a crawl at times or produced error messages saying the site was over capacity.
"We've been hearing steadily about it over the last couple of years, " he said about concerns the walkway was over capacity.
First is Europe, which will continue to lose maybe half a billion, annually, but over capacity there can be rationalized over time.
He said that his members told him that there was over capacity in Northern Ireland and there was the "wrong sort of capacity".
Guernsey's Director of Education, Alan Brown, said about 17 children needed to move from their first choice due to over capacity in their catchment areas.
In the face of uncertain business conditions, IT gets disproportionately penalized for being under capacity, but no one is really too upset about being over capacity.
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It said secondary school provision at Littleover Community School was already over capacity and warned that further development in the area would be likely to exacerbate the issue.
To some extent this does depend upon the over capacity or not in the car manufacturing industry but believe me, the way things have been this past couple of decades a buyer looking for tens of thousands of cars a year can pretty much write his own price.
The investment garnered little if any returns in industries which were already suffering from over-capacity.
Similarly, the optical components industry has suffered from over-capacity for years, depressing profitability and returns.
The main problem facing the road haulage industry is over-capacity too many trucks chasing too little work.
But higher passenger numbers are not translating into higher revenues-per-passenger, because of price wars and over-capacity.
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To those misgivings, however, they have recently added doubts over their capacity to defeat their enemies.
Chavez perceives the alliance to be strategic because of the Belarusian over-capacity of military production.
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The British clothing industry is suffering from falling prices, over-capacity and new sales channels, such as the Internet.
As tariff barriers come down, says Erik Sardain of Kleinwort Benson, over-capacity will remain a problem for many firms.
The second reason to expect consolidation is the industry's persistent and profit-crushing over-capacity.
Mr Barr said there had been a "significant" over-capacity in the UK meat industry and market conditions were extremely challenging.
The intervention must restore the company's viability, involve a sector characterised by over-capacity and be carried out with the company owner's participation.
This matters because the ministry thinks that it has to guarantee any firm it licenses, thus adding to over-capacity in the financial system.
Countries such as France, Spain and Italy have also tried to conceal over-capacity by government schemes to bribe people to buy new cars.
Julia Dean, from the WEP, said they were "disappointed" as rail travel was growing in popularity and there was already over-capacity on some lines.
But some analysts worry that the ever-increasing competition and over-capacity will prompt local manufacturers to look overseas for sales, creating tough competition for Thailand.
By the year 2000, over-capacity will have risen from 18m to 22m units equivalent to 80 of the world's 630 car assembly factories standing idle.
The broiler unit at Hill Top Farm in Bleasby Moor, between Wragby and Market Rasen, could turn over its capacity of chickens every six weeks.
Fortunately for itself, India hasn't built the sort of over-capacity in sectors like cement, steel, power and chemicals that we are seeing in East Asia.
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