high-security

adjective

: carefully locked, protected, or guarded
a high-security prison/facility

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Advertisement So the detectives drove back to the Boise airport, landed in Los Angeles at 2 a.m., rendezvoused with co-workers at 4 a.m. and headed to meet Morrison at a high-security storage center in Las Vegas. Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024 Prosecutors say Eric Pree, 55, of San Francisco, escaped the high-security federal prison in Atwater, California, in 2017. Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2024 At Tyler Corporation, a high-security lab holds top-secret results of genetic engineering: the titular velociraptor, which cannot be seen … or trusted. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024 Kramer and corrections officer Faith Rose Gratz ran the drug operation at the state’s largest high-security prison for at least three months in early 2022, when Kramer was serving a murder sentence. Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 12 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for high-security 

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“High-security.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high-security. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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