Built on the former Agecroft Power Station at Manchester, HM Prison Forest Bank is an 1064 place B Male Local Prison serving the courts of the North-West, accepting remand and sentenced adults and remand young offenders. The prison does not take Category A prisoners, nor females, though it does take Adults from the Wigan, Leigh and Bolton Courts and Young Offenders from all of Greater Manchester. The prison, which is contracted out for 25 years to Kalyx sits in the middle of a £2.7 million country park with lake and meadows built by the prison.

