It opened on Memorial Day in 1990 as a replacement for the overcrowded Charles Street Jail, located half a mile to the southwest.

The jail has 453 cells containing 654 individual beds.

On August 15, 2010, Philip Markoff, the so-called "Craiglist Killer", committed suicide while in detention there.

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