"If we want a prison system that works, and that no longer relies on using historic anachronisms like HMP Pentonville, we have to end our love affair with imprisonment. "That must start with a ...

The BBC was recently given exclusive access to HMP Pentonville, in London, a prison with more than 1,200 male inmates. We were shown weapons confiscated by staff that prisoners made or got hold of ...

The justice secretary has said even under the government's plans to open 14,000 more prison places, they could still run out of space over the next few years. Shabana Mahmood told the BBC that ...

The UK should "make more use of open prisons" to avoid overcrowding and reduce reoffending, the man leading the government's ...

A man almost missed the birth of his child when a prison kept him in custody after a court ordered his immediate release. On ...

inmates were bitten by venomous false widow spiders while at Hollesley Bay prison in Suffolk an inmate was bitten by a rat while sorting through rubbish. At HMP Pentonville, the rat infestation ...

In 2021 the issue was further highlighted by the case of Lauras Matiusovas, 31, who was accidentally released last year from Pentonville prison ... case where guards at HMP Grendon, in Bucks ...

Pentonville Prison, London. (Anthony Devlin/PA) Since September the Government has been freeing thousands of inmates early in a bid to cut jail overcrowding by temporarily reducing the proportion ...

Wayne Bayley was found unresponsive in a cell on the healthcare unit at HMP Pentonville on 17 May 2022, 10 hours after being restrained by prison officers in response to him raising concerns about ...