 Despite all this new capacity, Iran's prisons "were seriously overcrowded by 1983".Komiteh prison, built for 500, had 1,500 inmates; Evin Prison, built for 1,200, had 15,000; Qezel Hesar, built for 10,000, had 15,000; and Gohar Dasht prison, built for 8,000, had 16,000.Meanwhile, "Qasr, which had housed 1,500, in 1978, had more than 6,000".