The penal treadmill was “the perfect punishment” by Victorian standards ... walked a treadmill in Pentonville Prison as part of his 1895 hard labour sentence. It almost killed him.

Prisoners were put to work sewing mailbags and coal sacks. Pentonville prison in London was the most famous prison that was run as a separate prison. It was designed specially with wings radiating ...

London prison healthcare was worse than the national average for men's prisons in key areas, according to prisoner survey ...

Chief prisons inspector Peter Clarke said levels of violence had risen by 10% at HMP Pentonville and assaults on staff were up 30% since 2019. It is one of two London jails put into the equivalent ...

Violence at Pentonville prison has increased by more than 50% since 2017, a watchdog found "Government neglect" has "directly contributed" to the rise in violence and drugs at HMP Pentonville ...

Ayodole Jamgbadi, 28, from Ilford, appeared in custody at Inner London Crown Court via a video link from Pentonville Prison on Tuesday charged with murder and affray. Wearing a prison issue grey ...

I t’s Monday afternoon at HMP Pentonville — a men’s prison and young offender institution in Islington, north London — and officer Jenny Warren is talking to one of the inmates about the ...