Shrewsbury Prison is the second most overcrowded prison in England and Wales, the Prison Reform Trust says.
Five days later inmates at La Esperanza, an overcrowded prison, vowed to stop extorting people using jail phones.
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Its survey found Swansea jail is the fifth most overcrowded prison in the two countries, while Cardiff jail comes in at number six.
The most overcrowded prison, according to the report, is HMP Kennet in Liverpool, which was designed to hold 175 men but now holds 337.
The authorities are trying to establish whether the blaze in the overcrowded prison was started deliberately by an inmate or was caused by an electrical fault.
That has filled the jails: in May, 103 prisoners, most of them gang-members, died when fire swept through a grossly overcrowded prison in San Pedro Sula.
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Still it seems to be the poor relation of the prison system, grossly overcrowded, under-resourced and neglected.
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He said that figures for 2010-11 showed that nearly a quarter of people in prison were being held in overcrowded accommodation, either doubling up in cells designed for one occupant or being held three to a cell in spaces designed for two people.
This at a time when the prison system in New York is overcrowded and over budget.
She acknowledged that he had complained about prison conditions, which are often overcrowded and extremely unhygienic in Russia.
She understands the difficulties facing prison officials struggling to maintain order in an overcrowded, financially starved institution and dogged by politicians howling for ever harsher punishments.
Ms Owers also believes that prison should be used as a last resort and that jails should not become overcrowded putting pressure on already limited resources.
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