Sentence examples for overcrowded courts from inspiring English sources

If passed, extra judges would be available to ease overcrowded courts.

Judge John M. Roll had stopped by the mall for a cup of coffee and a moment with a member of Congress to talk about overcrowded courts.

Punishments for violating safety rules are not a sufficient deterrent, he added, because cases drag on for years in the overcrowded courts, and in the end the accused often are not penalized.

In Portugal, decriminalisation of possession of all drugs since 2001 has unblocked a hopelessly overcrowded court and prison system, and evaluations of this approach have shown a broadly positive impact on recidivism and social reintegration and a significant cost saving to the government.

You deserve to know, especially since so many divorces drag on between one to two years as they slowly slog their way through the overcrowded court system.

But until six or seven years ago, Mr. Ratner said, Forest City Ratner could not decide whether the building would be leased mostly to private sector tenants or to the various city agencies, many of which were, like the courts, overcrowded and rundown.

Take someone to court in India – and the case is sure to get mired for years, even decades, in an overcrowded, weighed-down court system that seemingly exists only to prove over and over the axiom that justice delayed is justice denied.

"In these overcrowded conditions," the court said, "inmate-on-inmate violence is almost impossible to prevent".

The room is overcrowded, completely overcrowded".

They can't push for even tougher laws, he says, at a time when prisons are so overcrowded that a federal court is threatening mandatory inmate releases.

The system is so overcrowded that a federal court imposed a cap and ordered the state to reduce its prison population by more than 40,000 offenders.