Safety at Pentonville prison has reached a crisis point, new figures suggest. It comes as a workers' union has warned the increase of violence in prisons across England is "totally out of control".

PALESTINIANS in Gaza and the West Bank have been forced to live a dreadful life amid the intermittent horrors of bombings and killings. After over a year of Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, there is now ...

At the pair's subsequent trial, Le Neve was acquitted but the doctor was found guilty in just 27 minutes and hanged at Pentonville Prison on 23 November 1910. Cora's disappearance has captured the ...

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 ...

In the 1840s there was another surge of national prison-building after the use of transportation slowed down. This began with Pentonville prison in London, which opened in 1842. By 1850 ...

In his April 1850 essay "Pet Prisoners," Dickens drew a comparison between the treatment convicted felons received at London's Pentonville Prison and the treatment the poor got at a nearby ...