‘Cockroach-infested’ Pentonville Prison illegally detains inmates

A prison that invaded a cockroach, which was detention of prisoners illegally for longer than the release date, was taken to special measures.

The prisons Chief Inspector Charlie Taylor made an urgent notification that after discovering a examination, after discovering that many prisoners were kept there after the release of many prisoners, the staff could not calculate the sentences correctly.

The guard said that 20% of the data suitable for release of the data showed that it was kept after the release date in the last six months.

“The team is trying to urgently handle the worries that emerged.”

“We will publish an action plan to support them in these efforts in the coming weeks.”

Mr. Taylor, “The government needs to take action very quickly.

“In fact, people are illegally imprisoned by the state because the prison cannot properly calculate their sentences.

“There are 28 days to respond to my letter with an action plan about what to do about Pentonville.”

The guard also found that 10 prisoners were published early between July 2024 and June 2025 early.

In a letter to the Secretary of Justice, the Chief Inspector said that the arrangements for the induction of the new prisoners and the first night in prison were “chaotic and even scary.”

Men, bedding, furniture, telephone and pillow is missing in the dirty cells, he said, the majority of prisoners are locked in their cells more than 22 hours a day, he said.

The report also stated that 60% of prisoners in category B shares cells designed for one person and a widespread invasion of mice and cockroaches.

The inspectors took an urgent action after they found the surveillance of prisoners under constant surveillance “shocking poor”. While one prison officer was asleep, the two were reading books, the other was “not completely”.

Considering that there were three suicide in prison in 2025, “unacceptable practices” in the care of prisoners under constant control were a special concern for inspectors.

Mr. Taylor said: “Pentonville is an extremely crowded, urban, Victorian prison with bad performance recording for many years.

“The staff was disappointed about the possibility of too much healing or the capacity to influence change.

“Nevertheless, most shocking failures are in control of leaders.”

The authority added: “The governor will need significant support and investment from HM prison and probation to fulfill effective surveillance and assurance systems to strengthen the senior leadership team, focus on the foundations and reverse this unsuccessful prison.

He continued: “We will go back to jail within a year and we will want to see significant improvements in the safety of the prisoners, but also some basic information such as sentence calculation is done correctly.”

Pentonville will be published in an emergency notification since November 2022.

In response to the findings of the Chief Inspector, a spokesman for a prison reform confidence: “This emergency statement must be a scream of gathering for action – Correct the unsuccessful infrastructure, improve personnel training and act dignified to prisoners.”

“This government will end the chaos we have inherited in our prisons. We are building 14,000 new prison places and reform the prison sentence, so that our prisons reduce the crime, the crime, and we keep the victims safe.”