maximum security
See also: maximum-security
English
Noun
maximum security (uncountable)
- a prison with more restrictions designed to hold the most dangerous criminals of society; supermax.
- 1990 June, J. Bennett, “Mission improbable”, in Washington Monthly, volume 22, number 5, page 22:
- Younis is now serving 30 years in maximum security.
- 1993 December 26, “Crime and Punishment; Building More Prisons and Jails Does Not Seem to Be the Answer to High Rate of Crime in US”, in CBS_Sixty Minutes:
- Mike Wallace: (Voiceover) […] They were released straight out of maximum security, solitary confinement, and then dropped off at this small-town bus stop nearby.
- 2002 August 26, Kirk Mitchell, “Stuck Inside: Fakers deemed sane are often confined by the state indefinitely”, in Denver Post, page A-01:
- While in maximum security, Glennie has been assaulted four times.
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Antonyms
- minimum security
Related terms
- maximum-security
References
- 10 most notorious prisoners of the maximum security Kingston Penitentiary
- Security Classification and Penitentiary Placement
- An evaluation of a maximum security therapeutic community for psychopaths and other mentally disordered offenders.