by KYW's Mike Dunn

Philadelphia Mayor Nutter has ordered his prisons commissioner to come up with a plan to relieve overcrowding in the city's lock-ups.  

Mayor Nutter admits the city's prisons are "bursting at the seams," and now he's giving Prisons Commissioner Louis Giorla 30 days to come up with a plan to ease the rampant overcrowding.

Giorla predicts this will worsen in the short term and then, hopefully, ease:

"The police department's crime plan, and some of the new initiatives to control crime, are going to give us an initial swell in the population. But what I think eventually will happen, we'll see a dip in our population because the crime will drop. That will enable us to concentrate some services on the people we need to provide them to."

Giorla says the city's prison population is currently 30% above capacity, resulting in inmates doubled- and tripled-up in cells.