Anne Owers gave evidence last week at a meeting of the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee looking at effective sentencing, and cited a visit to Portland Young Offender Institution as an example of the damaging effects of overcrowding.
"It had an old wing where young men were effectively having to 'slop out'," she said.
"Young men with buckets were appearing in the morning and pouring water into drains. Officers said most of the time it leaks into the offices."
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