The Government is facing a call from an MP to cancel a billion pound contract it has with Sodexo to run Salford's troubled Forest Bank prison following an M.E.N. investigation into the jail.
The claims we have uncovered have resulted in calls from Salford and Eccles MP Rebecca Long-Bailey to cancel Sodexo's contract and bring the prison into state control. The MP said our investigation, based on allegations from a whistleblower, an ex-prisoner and his father and the family of a grandfather who died in his cell, exposed a 'culture of lawlessness' at the jail.
The allegations paint a disturbing picture. We have been told that:
