high-security

adjective

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

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As a result, Kirkland was ordered to spend 60 days at Whiting Forensic Hospital, a high-security psychiatric facility in Middletown. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025 More than 170 inmates on death row were flown from Congo’s capital to a high-security prison in the north where they will be executed, Congolese authorities said. Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025 Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith says the city has been preparing for the storm ahead of a number of high-security events — Congress' certification of President-elect Donald Trump's electoral victory on Monday and funeral events for former President Jimmy Carter. Ayana Archie, NPR, 6 Jan. 2025 Becomes a jailbird at a high-security zoo after he’s caught, with the newest Wallace & Gromit film, Vengeance Most Fowl, finding Feathers, all these years later, hell-bent on getting even with the duo who locked him up. Devon Ivie, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025 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 21 Jan. 2025.

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