Now Alabama has the nation's most overcrowded prison system.
Britain's most overcrowded prison, HMP Kennet in Merseyside, is to close just 10 years after it opened, the justice secretary has announced.
A few hours later, wearing a well-cut grey suit, Monsignor Nunzio Scarano was shown into a cell in the Regina Coeli, Rome's most overcrowded prison.
Women inside Bandyup, Western Australia's most overcrowded prison, have written of their frustration and despair at the cramped conditions, with one suggesting that sharing with male prisoners would be better than staying put.
It has provoked debate about the country's deep-rooted culture of violence, especially against women, and raised questions over whether Pistorius, white and wealthy, will be treated more favourably than the 160,000 inmates who endure incarceration in Africa's most overcrowded prison system.
Today 30,000 fewer teachers serve in our classrooms and class sizes have become some of most overcrowded in the nation.
An analysis of beach occupancy showed that highly accessible urban beaches suffer the most from overcrowding.
Perhaps most importantly, overcrowding leads to a ballooning in patient nurse ratios because, unlike ICUs, EDs have no set patient nurse ratios.
The Emergency Assistance Unit, the city's tarnished golden door for families declaring themselves homeless, is most famously overcrowded in August, when children are out of school.
But these boats are run by human traffickers - many are inadequate for the journey - most are overcrowded.
