Pentonville Road Pentonville Road Pentonville Road is a road in Central London that runs west to east from Kings Cross to City Road at The Angel, Islington. The road is part of the London Inner Ring Road and part of the boundary of the London congestion charge zone. The road was originally built in the mid-18th century as part of the New Road, a bypass of Central London for coach traffic. It was named Pentonville Road after the new town of Pentonville, that encouraged manufacturing to move out of the city and into suburbia. Numerous factories and commercial premises became established on
HM Prison Pentonville the prison held 1,215 men. Pentonville is a local prison, holding Category B/C adult males remanded by local magistrates' and crown court, and those serving short sentences or beginning longer sentences. The prison is divided into these main wings: There are problems with drugs and weapons being thrown into the prison. Following the 2016 prison escape Camilla Poulton of Pentonville Prison Independent Monitoring Board, said: Michael Gove, former justice secretary described Pentonville as “the most dramatic example of failure” within the prisons estate. Mike Rolfe, chair of the Prison Officers Association said: The Independent Monitoring Board described Pentonville as squalid