He said providing extra seats to tackle overcrowding and continuing to get more trains on time was "welcome".
Federal prisons are not facing the same overcrowding problems that are plaguing many state prison systems.
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It said its initial focus would be tackling overcrowding on trains and congestion on the roads.
There are also an extra 400 people being held in police cells due to prison overcrowding.
Derek McGill, governor of Barlinnie, said overcrowding at the prison led to "regime difficulties".
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"Our aim is to tackle overcrowding, improve reliability and provide better comfort and quality, " she added.
Some worry that increasing the penalties for illegal gun carrying will add to prison overcrowding.
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The hospitals that remained open suffered from overcrowding and infection rates rose as a result.
Whether this will reduce overcrowding is yet to be seen, but it should help.
Although ensuring an electric atmosphere, the overcrowding could have led to a serious tragedy.
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But the Trust's Juliet Lyon told BBC Wales that the overcrowding did, nevertheless, cause operational problems.
The city council said it had introduced the one-way system because of overcrowding at previous events.
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It came up with suggestions to boost confidence in community sentences and help reduce prison overcrowding.
Overcrowding among tenants continued to rise, to 7% for social renters and 6% for private tenants.
He said overall the upgrade was "very positive" and more frequent trains would help ease overcrowding.
Water, sanitation and other utilities are usually absent, making the incredible overcrowding even harder to bear.
Big retail footfalls have been hurt by high rents, overcrowding of malls and a credit squeeze.
Releasing them earlier would be just, as well as a way of relieving overcrowding.
Rescuers are taking animals in, but overcrowding has forced them to ship some pets to other locations.
James Street Station in the city centre will be closed throughout Sunday and Monday to prevent overcrowding.
Lax safety standards, poor wiring and overcrowding are blamed for causing several deadly factory fires every year.
Overcrowding and poor planning has turned this once quiet city into a noisy and chaotic urban sprawl.
The escape may be due partly to a problem plaguing the prison that couldn't hold Faid: overcrowding.
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Mr MacAskill said he recognised the problems caused by overcrowding and said it needed to be fixed.
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After gang control, the second systemic failing of Latin American jails is overcrowding and thus inhuman conditions.
Cancellations and delays are now as routine a part of air travel as overcrowding and stale pretzels.
The reason for the purchase was ostensibly to address overcrowding in the federal prison system, with Sen.
The capacity is critical to help deal with overcrowding at Iraq's other facilities and the potential security threat.
The event was free until 2010, but was dogged by money problems and complaints about overcrowding and litter.
Other university reforms underway are designed to ease the overcrowding that would normally come with such an increase.
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