In Victorian England, workhouses were meant ... between the treatment convicted felons received at London’s Pentonville Prison and the treatment the poor got at a nearby workhouse at Saint ...

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 ...

On the gallows, the hangman at Pentonville prison in London pulled the lever. The slack rope snapped tight and one of the most notorious killers of the 20th century was dead. In her lodgings just ...

A Met Police investigation was launched in August 2023 after prison staff discovered a drone that had crashed inside HMP Pentonville containing drugs and mobile phones. Detectives linked the ...