Police have investigated 27 reports of rape at Salford's troubled Forest Bank prison over five years
Police have investigated 27 reports of rape and 34 other sex crimes as well as 344 alleged crimes of violence at Forest Bank prison since 2018.
Sodexo's contract to run the prison ends on January 19, 2025. Back in 1998, it was awarded a deal worth £1,006,771,964 to design, build and run the prison built on the site of the former Agecroft power station under a private finance initiative to house a maximum 1,064 inmates. The deal was to last 25 years, before being extended.
Greater Manchester Police confirmed to us it received 1,648 reports of crime at the prison from 2018. In 2018, there were 219 reports of crime at the prison, rising to 238 in 2019 and then to 395 in 2020. It reached a peak in 2021 when there were 539 reports of crime before falling back to 257 reported offences in 2022.
One experienced former prison officer who worked at Forest Bank told the M.E.N. sex crimes could be committed when inmates attempted to retrieve parcels of drugs which had been hidden in intimate areas of the body.Despite widespread reports that drug use is rife in the prison, only eight reports of possession of drugs were recorded in the period.
And, in May last year, a damning report by the chief inspector of prisons concluded the jail was 'unable to fulfil its role successfully' following an unannounced visit three months earlier.
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