by Rhona Pinkerton

A Kent jail is one of the most overcrowded in England and Wales for the second year running.

Canterbury prison was ninth most crowded last year but has now improved and is 11th, according to the Prison Reform Trust.

It found that 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.