What prisoners wrote to the IMB

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HMP Forest Bank · IMB 2023–24

What prisoners wrote to the IMB

222

applications this year

129 last year

Health and mental health

Property in the prison

Work and education

Discipline

Independent board · not family reports

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What men at HMP Forest Bank wrote to the Independent Monitoring Board last year.

222 applications, up from 129. The most common were health and mental health (38), property in the prison (21), work and education (21), and discipline (18).

That’s the official IMB report — not family reports on prisoncheck.

https://www.prisoncheck.co.uk/prisons/forest-bank?src=fb-share-forest-bank

Source: IMB annual report, HMP Forest Bank, 2023–24, 1 November 2023 to 31 October 2024, published March 2025. Open the Forest Bank snapshot · National intelligence.