1.14 During 2002 Forest Bank accrued 4,178 performance penalty points against a baseline threshold of 8,052 points (Figure 9). Approximately two-thirds of these were for assaults and items smuggled into the prison. Since it opened, Forest Bank has incurred a relatively low level of performance penalty points compared to the baseline and is the only PFI prison for which the contractor has not incurred any financial deductions since opening. There have been no escapes or major incidents. It received a 'good' security audit from the Prison Service Standards Audit Unit in February 2001, which is relatively rare for a new prison, and, after its first inspection in June 2002, HMCIP described Forest Bank as a 'very good local prison'12.
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12 HMCIP, Announced inspection HMP Forest Bank, 17-21 June 2002, p 3.