Neon Tommy, January 25, 2012 by Gracie Zheng
http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/01/la-county-jails-address-overcrowding
“The larger the number of people in the jail, the more vulnerable the jail inmate is going to feel. The less [the inmate] can do, the more anxious [the inmate] will be,” said Franklin Zimring, a University of California, Berkeley law professor. “What crowding does is make a restriction on liberty and also [the jail] into a potentially threatening environment,” he said.