31.   They failed, but by that time Mandela had issued an amnesty on the first anniversary of his inauguration aimed at clearing out the overcrowded prison system.

32.   Trying to relieve its overcrowded prisons, Italy signed an agreement with Albania on Wednesday to send hundreds of Albanian inmates back to their homeland.

33.   Those suspected as rebels are sent to overcrowded prisons until detectives investigate their cases.

34.   Troops and police searched house-to-house in two cities after the prisoners fled their overcrowded prisons Monday, stealing taxis and hiding in homes to elude authorities.

35.   Trials should be speeded up and conditions in the hopelessly overcrowded prisons improved, it said.

36.   It added that sanitation in these overcrowded prisons was appalling.

37.   Biondi was embroiled in several disagreements with other members of the government on judicial reforms designed to free prisoners from overcrowded prisons.

38.   The rest of the group was brought under control by guards and police officers who were called in as reinforcements to the overcrowded prison, officials said.

39.   They are still awaiting trial in overcrowded Rwandan prisons.

40.   Overcrowded Venezuelan prisons are the sites of frequent disturbances.