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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Damon Wilkinson

Yoga, sniffer dogs and dirty showers: A year in the life of a Greater Manchester prison

A new report has shed some light on what it's like to be an inmate at Greater Manchester's largest prison. Forest Bank in Salford can hold up to 1,460 men.

It's classed as a 'reception and resettlement' prison, meaning it has a mix of minor offenders serving short-term sentences alongside some of the region's most dangerous criminals being held on remand while they await a court date.

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