maximum security prison

noun

: a prison that does as much as possible to keep prisoners from escaping and watches them very closely

Examples of maximum security prison in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The two prisoners who attacked the corrections officers were transported to Oak Park Heights, the state’s maximum security prison, the news release said. Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024 If extradited from London, Assange would stand trial in Alexandria, Virginia, and could face up to 175 years in an American maximum security prison if convicted. Landon Mion, Fox News, 21 May 2024 Swedish prosecutors ultimately dropped the rape charges, but Assange was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy and placed in Belmarsh, a maximum security prison in southeast London, as the U.S. unveiled its charges against him. Willem Marx, NPR, 20 May 2024 Strawberry addressed inmates Wednesday at two medium security prisons in Hagerstown, Roxbury and the Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown, then spoke at the Western Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in Cumberland. Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2024 After decades of detaining psychiatric patients in maximum security prison cells, Idaho is finally on the verge of building a secure mental health facility that would house those with serious mental illness more humanely. Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2024 The state set aside $750,000 to renovate the execution chamber at the maximum security prison to provide a site for possible firing-squad executions, in addition to lethal injections. Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 26 Mar. 2024 Meade, 31, has most recently been serving time at a maximum security prison in Kuna for aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer with a firearm enhancement, according to police and Idaho Department of Correction records. Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2024 Danny Masterson has been moved to a maximum security prison that previously housed several infamous inmates including Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, and Rodney Alcala. Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2024

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“Maximum security prison.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maximum%20security%20prison. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.

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