by Rhona Pinkerton

Canterbury Prison is one of the most overcrowded in England and Wales for the second year running.

The jail, which holds foreign national inmates awaiting deportation, was ninth most crowded last year. It is now ranked 11th, according to the new survey conducted by the Prison Reform Trust.

It found two out of three prisons in England and Wales are overcrowded.

Canterbury has the capacity for 195 inmates but is holding 313, making it 161 percent over capacity.

Across England and Wales there are 9,000 more prisoners than the system was designed to cope with.

Prisons in Shrewsbury, Swansea and Dorchester are the most crowded.