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Island noun ▶ the Island the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England; in particular the prisons: HMP Camp Hill, HMP Albany or HMP Parkhurst UK- I had just finished a lagging on the Island[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 126, 1956
- The Island. From the name of this nick most people think that it is a prison without bars but that is not the case — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 54, 1958
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 65, 1996
- [T]hose IRA geezers down on the Island. The Parkhurst Brigade of the Provisional IRA. — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 39, 2000
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