The Nashua Street Jail, also known as the Suffolk County Jail, is a jail located in
Boston, Massachusetts
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. It opened on Memorial Day in 1990 as a replacement for the overcrowded
Charles Street Jail, located half a mile to the southwest. This facility houses almost 744 pre-trial detainees in 13 different housing units. The jail has 453 cells containing 654 individual beds. The entire facility is maximum security. On August 15, 2010,
Philip Markoff, the so-called "Craiglist Killer", committed suicide while in detention there.
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