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But most counties, particularly here in the conservative Central Valley, have focused on building jail capacity.

(It was Arpaio who put up Arizona's first tent city in Phoenix, to house the county jail's overflow behind razor wire, making the point that there would be no limit to jail capacity in his jurisdiction.

"We are not ready to jump into more early release or building more jail capacity," he said.

The Correction Department plans to nearly double the jail's capacity of 760 beds by adding an adjoining structure on State Street that would serve as its new entrance.

Last week the Home Office reported that the number of prisoners in England and Wales had reached a record 70,000, near the jail's capacity of 71,500.

Under a longstanding federal consent decree that requires the Sheriff's Department to release inmates when the jail reaches capacity, 40 to 60 people are let go early every day.

There have been times in recent years when the jail exceeded capacity and individuals had to sleep on mattresses on the floor in communal areas.

Certainly, the jail was over capacity.

Much like police officers have become armed social workers tasked with challenges far beyond their capacity, jails have become dangerous places partly because they are more than just jails ― they have become detox units and mental health wards, even though they are typically equipped to be neither.

Some rural counties, seeking to make the arrangement profitable, built large jails with excess capacity.

David Laws, the former Lib Dem schools minister, argues that our jails are at capacity and reoffending rates sky high.