Panicked settlers crowded into the already overcrowded fort. Mental hospitals were overcrowded and understaffed. Public hospitals are generally overcrowded and understaffed. The camp had been unsanitary, overcrowded and disorganized. Jews were confined to ghettos in Riga and Kauen, which rapidly became overcrowded and squalid. These areas soon became overcrowded, underfunded, and mistreated. Black dominated schools in the city continued to be overcrowded as well as underfunded. The dormitories were described as seriously overcrowded. Overcrowded and inadequate apartments was the common condition. Despite all this new capacity, Iran's prisons "were seriously overcrowded by 1983". People carpooled or took public transportation, which was severely overcrowded. Rikers Island soon became overcrowded with prisoners. There were nine shelters set up in the region, which became overcrowded with evacuees. Almost all were poor, and housed in overcrowded and insanitary conditions. Johnson attended an overcrowded and segregated elementary school.