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Photo by Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Background
The Deer Island Prison (c.â1880â1991) in Suffolk County, Massachusetts was located on Deer Island in Boston Harbor. Once known as the Deer Island House of Industry and later, House of Correction, it held people convicted of drunkenness, illegal possession of drugs, disorderly conduct, larceny, and other crimes subject to relatively short-term sentencing. When it closed in 1991, some 1,500 inmates were being held at Deer Island.
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Sources
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- Wikidata (Q5250770)
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Deer Island Prison. Retrieved July 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/deer-island-prison
Chicago
"Deer Island Prison." World Prisons. Accessed July 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/deer-island-prison.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-deer-island-prison,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Deer Island Prison},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/deer-island-prison},
urldate = {2026-07-23}
}