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Devil's Island is featured in the plot of The Dain Curse (1928), a novel by Dashiell Hammett, an American mystery writer. [12] Ronald Colman plays a Devil's Island prisoner in Condemned (1929 film). Danish writer Aage Krarup Nielsen wrote a novel Helvede hinsides havet (1933) (Hell beyond the Sea), describing life in the prison system.
The island is surrounded by rocky promontories and shoals, strong cross-currents and shark-infested waters. Landing on the island by boat is so treacherous that prison officials constructed a cable car system to connect the island to the nearby Île Royale. They used the cable car for years to travel the 180 m (600 ft)-wide channel between the ...
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Bass Rock, castle used as a prison from 15th century to 18th century; Drake's Island, prison in the 17th century; Inishbofin, the star fort on the island was used as a prison for Catholic priests during the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland; Jail Island, prison in the 1600s; Spike Island, County Cork, from 1847 to 2004. Part of Treaty Ports
Grosser is notable for writing one of the first exposés of Alcatraz Prison, the 32-page pamphlet Uncle Sam's Devil's Island, which told of his experience in the prison. He died by suicide in Boston, Massachusetts in October 1933 and was buried on October 20, 1933.
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The prison colony was featured in the DVD extras for Michael Moore's 2007 documentary Sicko. In 2010, both a documentary about the island by Michel Kapteijns was released [13] and King of Devil's Island, a Norwegian film directed by Marius Holst. [14] In 2015, the prison was featured in an episode of Good Mythical Morning.