Hmp Forest Bank

HM Prison Forest Bank is a Category B men's private prison, in the Agecroft area of Pendlebury near Manchester, England. The prison is operated by Sodexo Justice Services. HistoryAn officer and a manager at Forest Bank prison in Salford have been charged with theft and money laundering. The charges follow a police investigation into reports of the theft of computer games, DVDs and CDs from the prison in AgecroftForest Bank Prison was constructed on the site of the former Agecroft Power Station. The 25-year design, construct, manage and finance (DCMF) contract was won by Kalyx (formerly UKDS) in 1997 and it opened in January 2000. In November 2002 a report from Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons praised Forest Bank for its staff-prisoner relations, management structure, increased staffing levels and levels of association between inmates. However the report also noted that many of the prison staff at Forest Bank lacked experience and that there was insufficient purposeful activity, with fewer than half the prisoners engaged in meaningful work or education. In 2004 it emerged that a prison officer at Forest Bank had been caught trying to sell heroin to inmates. The officer was caught with 147 wraps of the drug hidden in his shoes when he started his shift. The officer was jailed for the offence. In March 2005 an inmate escaped from Forest Bank while being taken to hospital in a taxi. The prisoner was handcuffed to two prison officers as they travelled from the prison to the nearby Hope Hospital, when the taxi was stopped by two men who threatened the guards with a gun, forcing them to let the inmate free.

HM Prison Forest Bank is a Category B men's private prison, in the Agecroft area of Pendlebury near Manchester, England. The prison is operated by Sodexo Justice Services. HistoryAn officer and a manager at Forest Bank prison in Salford have been charged with theft and money laundering. The charges follow a police investigation into reports of the theft of computer games, DVDs and CDs from the prison in AgecroftForest Bank Prison was constructed on the site of the former Agecroft Power Station. The 25-year design, construct, manage and finance (DCMF) contract was won by Kalyx (formerly UKDS) in 1997 and it opened in January 2000. In November 2002 a report from Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons praised Forest Bank for its staff-prisoner relations, management structure, increased staffing levels and levels of association between inmates. However the report also noted that many of the prison staff at Forest Bank lacked experience and that there was insufficient purposeful activity, with fewer than half the prisoners engaged in meaningful work or education. In 2004 it emerged that a prison officer at Forest Bank had been caught trying to sell heroin to inmates. The officer was caught with 147 wraps of the drug hidden in his shoes when he started his shift. The officer was jailed for the offence. In March 2005 an inmate escaped from Forest Bank while being taken to hospital in a taxi. The prisoner was handcuffed to two prison officers as they travelled from the prison to the nearby Hope Hospital, when the taxi was stopped by two men who threatened the guards with a gun, forcing them to let the inmate free.