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.

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 ...

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 ...

A former private tutor killed himself in prison after he was jailed for sexually abusing children. Edward Lomas, 62, from Romford, was found dead in his cell at HMP Pentonville in May last year ...